Contents
essays & features
2. Controversial Image of Lebanon Wins World Photo Prize,
by Mohammed Ali Atassi
4. Burning Questions - Review Debunks Honor Crime Memoir,
by Thérèse Taylor
7. Seven Years, by Hanna Saadah
A Nationalist Scene in the Congestion of Republics, by Suhail Shadoud
8. The Passing of a Great Syrian Writer: Ilfat Idilbi, 1912-2007,
by Simone Fattal
10. Mideast Politics Put to Words and Music: Bahraini Democracy Threatened by Musical,
by Kelly O’Brien
11. How Painting Came East,
by Charbel Dagher
16. Wedding and War in Galilee,
by Sunaina Maira
56. Disrepair and Neglect Mar Gibran Memorial, by Stan Shabaz
films
19. Approaching Iraq: Poetry and Nationality, by Beige Luciano-Adams
21. Transsexuals in Iran, by Pamela Nice
22. A Time to Say No, by Bobby S. Gulshan
23. Land and Betrayal, by Rebecca Romani
24. Pathology of an Occupation, by Rebecca Romani
26. A Mother’s Enduring Love, and Young Canadians Craft Documentaries on Two Issues Affecting Muslim Women, by Lynne Rogers
interviews
28. A Conversation with Alaa al-Aswany on “The Yacoubian Building,"
by Pamela Nice
books
30. “Dunya,” the New Novel by Sobh: A Look into Pandora’s Mid-Eastern Box,
by Rafif Rida Sidawi
32. Dangerous Crossings - Two Novels Tackle Arab Immigration West,
by Andrea Shalal-Esa
34. Redemption in an Open Space, by Andrea Stanton
35. The Science of “Palestinian Arab Music,” by Sami Asmar
37. Collective Memory and the Search for Authenticity, by Sami Asmar
39. Makdisi’s Memoir: Witnesses of Transition in Arab Women’s Times,
by Pauline Homsi Vinson
41. Tanzimat Legal Reforms Left Changes in Palestinian Society,
by Saadia Yacoob
42. A Walk on the Wild Side, by Bobby S. Gulshan
42. A City’s Burden of Providence, by Robert Livermore
44. Palestine and its Nemesis, by Faisal Tbeileh
45. Reality Checks on American Orientalist Film, by Pamela Nice
46. Deconstructing Paradigms on Ottoman Past, by Faika Celik
47. The World as a High Rise (plus a few feet on the roof), by Rebecca Romani
50. An Accidental Primer, by Arlen Jones
51. A Major Contribution to Arab American Studies, by Pauline Homsi Vinson
51. What’s in a Word? by Andrea Stanton
54. In Other Words: Book Charts Arabic to English Impact, by Judith Gabriel
53. books in brief
38. contributors
52. cover artist
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