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Essay

Prize to Celebrate: Abdellatif Laabi
Wins 2009 Goncourt Literary Prize for Poetry

BY ELIE CHALALA
Literary prizes in the Arab world are hardly occasions for celebration. With the exception of the Sultan Bin al-Owais Award, a good number of literary awards have been greeted with cynicism and skepticism. Many of the prizes are tainted by Gulf or state money and sponsorship, as well as by scandals. Criticism has been directed towards the criteria for selecting candidates, the qualifications of the administrators of the prizes, and, importantly, the qualifications of the committee members themselves, and even the qualifications of the administrators of the prizes, and even the qualifications of the judging committee members themselves. Too often, personal and political considerations trump all others, with prizes being handed out to those closest to the award juries and most supportive of state policies, rather than the most talented.More…


Essay

Albert Cossery by Mamoun Sakkal
for Al Jadid

Albert Cossery, 1913-2008: Mockery as Resistance

BY MICHAEL TEAGUE
The novels of Albert Cossery are refreshingly scathing in their criticism of vanity, political corruption, and poverty of thought and imagination. They are also a tribute to the power of humor to free people from the vapid absurdities of modern existence. Judging by the reaction to his passing last year, one may deduce with resignation the scandalous underexposure of Cossery’s work. He does not tower over Arab literature like Naguib Mahfouz, or over Arab-francophone literature like Albert Camus, but one should not misread his lesser position as an indication of any artistic shortcomings. Of Cossery, it might be more accurate to say that he towered underneath these literary giants. He wrote, like Jean Genet, of the underground; his stories take place among the prostitutes, drug addicts and criminals at the bottom of society.More…


Film
“Women Writing Men, Men Writing  Women”From left to right: Amal Amireh,  Sonallah Ibrahim, Hoda Barakat, Ahmad Dallal. Photo taken by David Kim

Two Documentaries about Egypt and Syria

From Condemning Voter Fraud to Chronicling Regime’s Predicament

BY LYNNE ROGERS
In the spring of 2005, when the Egyptian government announced a change to the Constitution for multi-candidate presidential elections, the population took to the streets of Cairo decrying the gesture a ‘fraud.’ Simultaneously, three courageous women began to worry about the present state of Egypt. Bosayna, an attractive newscaster for Egyptian National Television, votes at an empty polling station and then later reports full civilian participation to her television audience. Disarmed by the blatant hypocrisy, Bosayna joins forces with Engi, a chain smoking Marketing Consultant and Ghada, a university professor and mother of four.More…


Essay
Tayeb Salih by  Mamoun Sakkkal for Al Jadid
Tayeb Salih by
Mamoun Sakkkal for Al Jadid
The Season of Tayeb Salih – Crossing the Boundaries

BY LYNNE ROGERS
While some immediately think of the violent crisis in Darfur at the mention of Sudan , others will remember Tayeb Salih, the legendary Sudanese writer who passed away in London at the age of 80. His monumental novel, “Season of Migration to the North,” first published in English in 1969, is considered by many critics to be the work that launched contemporary Arab literature onto the world stage and into the modern canon. More…


Essay
Monkith Saaid: Fingertips Grasping PlaceMonkith Saaid: Fingertips Grasping Place

BY SHAWIQI ABD AL-AMIR
In Monkith Saaid's studio in Sahnayah, a village south of Damascus , nothing escapes his artistic universe; neither moldy wood, rusted steel, smashed reeds nor stones or glass. Not even sawdust. All traditionally neglected material evading sight or interest enters his workshop and transforms itself, through his extraordinary genius, into beautiful and delicate creatures, whispers of love and shouts of protest against oppression, which collapse together in a hysterical dance. More…


Essay
The Politics of Getting Published: The Continuing Struggle of Arab-American Writers The Politics of Getting Published: The Continuing Struggle of Arab-American Writers

BY ANDREA SHALAL-ESA
More Arab-American writers are getting their work published than ever before, but even those lucky few who land lucrative book contracts with big publishers still face a host of problems ranging from censorship to being pigeonholed as only Arab-American writers. Clearly, U.S. publishing has a growing appetite for information about the Arab and Muslim worlds, but many mainstream media remain deeply affected by an Orientalist agenda that focuses on the oppression of women and other stereotypes about Arab society. More…


Essay
Your Place' 2006 Christine Eid Photographer: Andrew Lloyd
Your Place' 2006 Christine Eid Photographer: Andrew Lloyd

BY CHRISTINE EID
“ Melbourne ’s taxi entrepreneurs who came to Australia from Hadchit , Lebanon , who included my father, were the influence behind my solo, contemporary art exhibition entitled ‘Transit’, held in 2006 at Span Galleries in Melbourne , Australia . Exploring my own history I recorded the rich oral stories of this group, who migrated to Australia as part of the second wave of Lebanese migration (1947-1975),” wrote Christine Eid. More…

Book Review
Building the Future While Embracing the Past: New Directions in Arab-American Art and CultureBuilding the Future While Embracing the Past: New Directions in Arab-American Art and CultureBuilding the Future While Embracing the Past: New Directions in Arab-American Art and Culture
Building the Future While Embracing the Past:
New Directions in Arab-American Art and Culture


BY D. W. AOSSEY

Once a hallmark of our collective social conscious, assimilation into Western culture and society has recently taken on new meaning. In the wake of escalating domestic and international conflict over the past decade, we suddenly find ourselves standing before the proverbial looking glass, repeating what we should have known all along: if we, as Arab Americans, don’t define who we are and for what we stand, someone else will do it for us. And nowhere is it more important for us to take a stand than in the true heritage of our people – the arts and culture. Three recent books on the subject, “In/Visible: Contemporary Art by Arab American Artists,” “Etching Our Own Image: Voices from Within the Arab American Art Movement,” and “Telling Our Story: The Arab American National Museum,” address this issue with a fresh perspective and an eye toward the future. More…

Essay

BY MOHAMMAD ALI ATASSI

Sexual harassment of women in Egypt is one of many social problems that politicians and the media have tended to treat as an instance of individual, abnormal behavior. Because they treat it as an isolated aberration from proper outside the path, principles and traditions of a sanctioned way of life – Egyptian society as a whole does not need to confront it. More...

Remembrance

BY MAHMOUD SAEED
The highest honors in modern Arab literature rightly fall on icons like Taha Hussein and Naguib Mahfouz, both authors of irrefutable genius. But while these figures deserve their place in Arab letters, the publishers behind them – who, often amid difficult circumstances, have the courage and vision to bring their work to readers – sometimes fail to receive their due. Suheil Idriss, an important literary figure in his own right, might lack the recognition shared by Hussein and Mahfouz, but his accomplishments as a publisher rivaled those of the canon’s most esteemed authors. More…


Remembrance
Bashir al-Daouk (1931-2007)
In Memoriam: Farewell to Publisher Hero

BY ELIE CHALALA
As happens in the West, Arab culture often celebrates authors at the expense of publishers. Also like their Western counterparts, Arab publishers tend toward commercialism and self-interest, jeopardizing the public’s best interest. And, typically, they are only too ready to abandon authors of manuscripts deemed “controversial,” as well as those on whose behalf they receive threats from governments or non-governmental groups. But Lebanon, and even the Arab world, prides itself on the exception that was Dr. Bashir al-Daouk, the late owner of the publishing house Dar Al Talia and the monthly magazine, Dirasaat Arabiyya (Arab Studiess).More…


Interview
Bander Sculpture
AN INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY BANDAR ABD Al-HAMID
Monkith Saaid (1958-2008) was a distinct presence among Arab sculptors of his generation. His artistic experience combined creativity, an intensity of ideas, talent, innovation and a humanist tendency which left him completely open to the dynamics of life in this world. During his lifetime, Saaid was renowned for his spontaneous, joyful laughter. More...


Music
Mansour Rahbani, Legacy of a Family and a Generation

BY SAMI ASMAR
Modern Arab music was shaped by a few highly creative individuals throughout the 20th century. Three of them were members of one family: the Rahbanis of Lebanon, comprised of the two brothers Assi and Mansour, and a singer named Nuhad Haddad who married Assi and took the name Fairuz. Their documented journey has become legendary; for nearly three decades, the Rahbani Brothers wrote and composed songs that Fairuz sang and musicals in which she starred. More...


Music


BY SAMI ASMAR
A division has long existed between large Western-style orchestras and ethnic ensembles of all types. Western Orchestral musicians are rigorously, classically trained and precisely follow a conductor while they read from common music sheets that preserve the details of the compositions.More...

Yasmin Levy at the Skirball Center

BY DANIEL HUGH-JONES

I had the rare good fortune recently to experience a fine singer working at the top of her form. Rarer yet, I was privileged to enjoy the performance in a small and intimate setting. Perched high above Los Angeles at the Skirball Center, the singer was Yasmin Levy was taking part in the Skirball Center’s current series, “Elles, Voices of Women” celebrating ideals of “tolerance, friendship and shared humanity.”More...

Art

sculptureAbstract Sculpture Cropping up in Beirut’s Public Spaces

BY RIMA BARAKAT

Increasingly more public sculpture, both representational and purely abstract, is beginning to appear in the public spaces of Beirut. More...


Art

BY D.W. AOSSEY
The phrase “Divide and Conquer” is a familiar one to students of history and international conquest alike. But when internal divisions are imposed upon peaceful civilians the concept takes on an exceptionally cruel irony – and few places today more fundamentally represent this disparity than the U.S./Mexico border region and Israeli-occupied Palestine. More...


Music
Issa Boulos Brings Al-Hallaj Back to Life

By SAMI ASMAR
Composing the text of classical Arabic poetry is a tremendous challenge typically avoided by musicians seeking the rewards of mass appeal. Regional dialects are favored due to the supposed ease on listeners, especially adolescent consumers of CDs and music DVDs. So when a composer dusts off the poetry of the little known Abu al-Mughith al-Hussayn Ibn Mansur al-Hallaj, who was brutally executed in Baghdad in 922 for his pacifist Sufi writings, it is an indication of a rare musical confidence. More…

Essay

Nazik al-Malaika by
Mamoun Sakkkal for Al Jadid
Nazik al-Malaika (1923-2007)Iraqi Woman’s Journey Changes Map
of Arabic Poetry


BY SIMONE STEVENS
Nazik al-Malaika, one of Iraq’s most famous poets, died June 20, 2007, at the age of 83. Al-Malaika was best known for her role as a pioneer of the free verse movement, making a sharp departure from the classical rhyme form that had dominated Arabic poetry for centuries. More...


Interview
Jawad al-Assadi: Director Returns to Iraq to Find Nothing the ‘Same’

bY REBECCA JOUBIN
“….After a lengthy exile, I returned after the downfall of the dictator. As I entered my homeland, I was shattered by how war’s ruin had replaced the beautiful landscape, just like that, without any semblance of shame. I lamented the fact that the madness of Saddam’s regime had piled the country’s rich mythological traditions alongside heaps of garbage which lined the street corners. But what shook me most was how the demon of religious authority had imposed itself on society and destroyed centuries of progress, and how fanaticism had single-handedly turned the country back into the dark ages, a feat even greater than that which the Taliban had managed. More…

Art
A Treasured Mystery

bY SIMONE FATTAL
Phoenician history and art are the dual subjects of an exhibit that took place a year ago in Paris at the Institut du Monde Arabe. "The world of the Phoenicians can be found throughout the Mediterranean, and many of their treasures
are rediscovered in places
other than their country of origin. Sardinia, Cyprus, Italy, Spain, Tunisia are all cities
they founded or utilized as commercial outposts, stops along the Phoenicians' expansive sea routes," wrote Simone Fattal. More...


Essay
To Boycott or Not to Boycott:
The Politics of Culture at Paris, Turin Book Fairs

bY ELIE CHALALA
The polemical issue of boycott is a longstanding one in Arab political, economic and cultural discourse. The debate involves three groups. The first promotes all-out opposition toward any contact with Israel, cultural or political. The second opposes the boycott and believes that the Arabs and Palestinians should not fear a cultural confrontation with the Zionists because the latter has no moral superiority. The third separates the cultural from the political, considering the Book Fair a political rather than cultural, thus its boycott was justified. More...

Essay
Disrepair and Neglect Mar Kahlil Gibran Memorial

BY STAN SHABAZ
The essay is an ironic commentary about an official celebration (by Bush senior and Norman Schwarzkopf) of Gibran as an advocate of peace while wars are being waged. But the dissonance between the glorification of Gibran as a man of peace, and the orchestration of war by these same officials, is not the only contradiction Stan Shabaz notes. His visit to the Gibran Memorial Garden was hardly reassuring; “To my dismay, I found the memorial garden to be in a state of disrepair, much like the current state of U.S.-Near Eastern relations. The bronze sculpture of Gibran overlooks a fountain of brackish green, still water. Above the fountain, a sign warns: ‘Water unsafe for drinking.’” More...

Interview
A Conversation with
Alaa al-Aswany on
“The Yacoubian Building”


BY PAMELA NICE
“Some Egyptians didn’t like the movie because they felt it focused only on the negative aspects of their society. But most of the many people I talked to were profoundly, emotionally moved by the film or book. Some credited the film for the success of the book. Others thought it was the sexual content (certainly tame by American standards) that boosted book sales,” wrote Pamela Nice. More...

 
 
Interview
Helen Karam
Helen Karam, on Childhood Inspirations, Her Artistic Quest to Preserve Beirut, and Strong Will to Survive on Her Own Terms.
BY REBECCA JOUBIN
Helen Karam is a prominent Lebanese artist known for her magical canvases of colors defying all categorization and for her bold human and social statements. Having become more and more prominent in the Lebanese art scene in recent years, her works have also become recognized internationally, in London, Paris, Kuwait, to and most recently Davidson College in the U.S., (February 2010), where her artwork and presence were an integral part of a festival celebrating the experience of women in the Middle East. The following is an interview with Helen Karam for Al-Jadid conducted for Al Jadid during the fall of 2009.More…

Book Review
From Documentary to Fiction – Stories of Lebanese Immigrant Women

BY PAULINE HOMSI VINSON

Those who know of Evelyn Shakir’s writing from her seminal 1997 book, “Bint Arab: Arab and Arab-American Women in the United States,” know her to be a skilled chronicler of the lives of Arab women immigrants and their daughters in America. By recording the words of various women across three generations, beginning with the 19th century, Shakir has given public visibility to the presence of strong, active and well-defined communities of Arab women in America. More…

Essay
  Ilfat Idilbi, 1912-2007

BY SIMONE FATTAL
It was on a day, much like today (Saturday, June 30), the day of the Gay Pride Parade in Paris, that I met my friend, the writer Ilfat Idilbi, for lunch at Les Deux Magots a few years ago. I had not realized that the Gay Pride Parade would be taking place when I’d first proposed that date for our meeting – I dreaded crowds and noise, both things that did not bother Ilfat Idilbi in the least. As soon as we settled on the terrace, the parade floats began turning down Boulevard St. Germain. More…


Interview
 Walid Agha

BY REBECCA JOUBIN

Syrian artist Walid Agha is well-known for his paintings, which draw upon the rich cultural traditions of his country. In October 2008, Rebecca Joubin interviewed him in his art studio in Sahnayah, Damascus. Here he talks about the sources of his inspiration as well as future plans.More…


Essay
 Bedouin Girl By Habib Srour
How Painting Came East

BY CHARBEL DAGHER
A painting, in its most basic form, is a piece of colored canvas pulled taut across a wooden frame. The history of canvas painting has yet to be told, for while we can identify the beginnings of painting in the Italian Renaissance, we still do not have an account for its spread to studios, homes, and various other venues where it is housed around the world. Indeed, the painted canvas has spread among so many cultures and peoples that, today, it has come to represent the most widely accepted understanding of painting.More…


Film Review
A Time to Say No

Film Review
Pathology of an Occupation
BY REBECCA ROMANI —Some documentaries are a picnic: entertaining, witty, informative, leaving one with a feeling of satisfied acquisition. And then there are those that get under your skin, tearing your thinking up bit by bit – enlightening but disquieting, disturbing. More…

Film Review
Land and Betrayal

Film Review
Approaching Iraq: Poetry and Nationality
BY BEIGE LUCIANO-ADAMS“Iraq in Fragments,” director James Longley’s lush and haunting dreamscape of “post war” Iraq, won critical acclaim, including an Academy Award nomination and three 2006 Sundance Film Festival awards (Best Documentary Director, Editing and Cinematography). More…

Film Review
Transsexuals in Iran

Film Review
A Mother’s Enduring Love
BY LYNNE ROGERS —While James Longley was filming his longer, multiple award-winning “Iraq in Fragments,” he also shot the short documentary “Sari’s Mother.” This 14-minute film follows an Iraqi mother as she cares for her 10-year old son, who contracted AIDS from a hospital blood transfusion.More…

Film Review
Young Canadians Craft Documentaries on Issues Affecting Muslim Women
BY LYNNE ROGERS —Two female Muslim Canadian filmmakers candidly document the gender inequities they find within their own communities in two recent films. Zarqa Nawaz travels across North America in “Me and the Mosque,” examining the growing phenomenon of segregating women within the mosque behind physical partitions, More…

Book Review

Book Review
Honor Killing

Book Review
West, Mideast Dichotomy in Veil Debate
BY SIMONE STEVENS — Whether worn as a headscarf or a neqab that covers the whole body, the Islamic veil has sparked controversy and interest among Westerners both prior to and since the terrorist attacks on September 11. It was alsodebated among Arab and Muslim reformists and intellectuals as far back as the beginning of the last century. Recently the veil debate has been rekindled by controversial legislation passed in France and Turkey. Partly to promote assimilation, France passed a law in 2004 making it illegal to wear religious symbols, including the hijab, in public buildings such as schools. In secular Turkey, where the president’s wife dons the hijab, Parliament has found a solution that eases restrictions that were imposed on veil-wearing after Ataturk’s time. (Click here to read the full article)

Book Review

Book Review
Darwish
BY LYNNE ROGERS When the Arab world’s most popular poet passed away in a hospital in Texas last year, the American media hardly noticed. Nevertheless, admired in Europe, particularly in France, one of his adopted homelands, and revered in Ramallah as the voice of Palestine, the prolific oeuvre of Mahmoud Darwish has been readily available in English thanks to his dedicated translators. More...

Book Review
Cover of conscience of a Nation
BY MICHAEL NAJJAR—The specter of the great Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz haunts Richard Jacquemond’s “Conscience of the Nation: Writers, State, and Society in Modern Egypt.” In Jacquemond’s conception, Mahfouz is the greatest example of the drama of the modern Egyptian writer who expresses “the gulf that never seems to get any narrower between his prophetic ambitions and the extreme difficulty he has in disseminating his work, whatever the form that the censorship might take.” More...

Book Review
Origin
Memory and Mystery in Abu-Jaber Novel
BY ANDREA SHALAL-ESA— Readers familiar with Diana Abu-Jaber’s previous books, which focus heavily on Arab-American characters and their identity struggles, will likely find her latest novel, “Origin,” a startling departure in tone, style and subject matter. “Origin” is a gripping forensic detective novel, with a deeply psychoanalytical twist. There is only one Arab-American character in this novel, and his heritage is not central. Food – so important to Abu-Jaber’s other work – plays virtually no role in this story, and even the climate is colder since the story is set in wintry Syracuse, New York. More...

Book Review

Outside the Rubric ‘War on Terror’

BY MICHAEL TEAGUE— "Hezbollah: A Short History" by Augustus Richard Norton —Readers of Augustus Richard Norton’s “Hezbollah: A Short History” can rest assured that his work is not ideological or doctrinal. On the contrary, Norton, currently a professor of international relations and anthropology at Boston University, is uniquely qualified to give such an account because he has worked with UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) in the early 1980’s, where he witnessed firsthand the conditions that led to the emergence of Hezbollah from the Shiites of southern Lebanon. More...

Book Review

Egyptian TV Dramas — ‘The Faith and the Nation’
BY HILARY HESSE— Professor of anthropology and gender studies at Colombia University, Lila Abu-Lughod has authored many books, including “Veiled Sentiments” and “Writing Women’s Worlds.” In “Local Contexts of Islamism in Popular Media,” she follows on her earlier book, “Dramas of Nationhood,” and discusses the depiction of Islamism in the Egyptian media via television serials, which are finite, melodramatic series that often treat political and social issues. More...

Book Review
On 'Being Young and Arab in America'
BY SUSAN MUADDI DARRAJ—“Enemies living among us” – this is how Moustafa Bayoumi characterizes the perception many Americans have of Arabs in the United States. In “How Does It Feel to be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America,” he focuses on young Arab Americans whom, he explains, bear the brunt of much of this hostility as they themselves are in a precarious period of their social development and their identity formation. “Even the most mundane facts of their lives,” he writes, “such as visiting mosques and shisha cafes, are now interpreted as something sinister and malevolent.” More...


Muhammed Abd al- Jabbari by Zareh fo Al Jadid

A New Book Debunks Muhammad Abd Al Jabberi’s Theory, Sources, and Interpretations

A work which would have stirred a rich intellectual debate, involving historical and methodological questions in studying contemporary Arab political thought has, instead, taken a bizarre twist. The work is George Tarabishi's book “Nakd Nakd Al `Akl Al Arabi, Nazariyyat Al Akl [Critique of the Critique of Arab Reason, Theory of Reason]” published by Dar Al Saqi (London 1996).More...


George Tarabishi by Zareh for Al Jadid

George Tarabishi on his Book, al-Jabberi, and Theory of Rethinking Turath Studies

 BY IBRAHIM AL-ARISS
George Tarabishi is noted Syrian author and translator of many books that enriched the Arabic language library during the past three decades. Tarabishi, who currently resides in Paris, has been the subject of much debate and discussion after his book “Nakd Nakd Al 'Akl Al Arabi, Nazariyyat Al 'Akl [Critique of the Critique of Arab Reason, Theory of Reason].” More...


“If you are a traditional Muslim you might be disturbed by parts of this book. But if you are an enlightened Muslim you will realize that dialogue is a characteristic of the modern age. More...

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xcultural roundup

xcultural roundup

BY ANDREA SHALAL-ESA
Let’s face it: immigration is hell. It’s even worse when you don’t have the proper visas and paperwork and are slipping across borders in borrowed vans or swimming to a shore teeming with the border patrol. These two novels attempt to unpack the nameless, faceless immigrants heading west from Arab countries and to provide some insight into their lives. Poverty and resignation loom large, as do the failures of globalization and the often-naïve dreams of “a better life.” More...


xcultural roundup
BY BOBBY S. GULSHAN
Rawi Hage’s novel takes its title from an allusion made in the film “The Deerhunter,” in which Robert DeNiro played the starring role. The “game” that Hage’s narrator refers to has a dual meaning. First, in “The Deerhunter” the characters engage in a game of “Russian Roulette,” just as Hage’s characters do in the novel.More….

xcultural roundup
BY PAULINE HOMSI VINSON
Jean Said Makdisi’s “Teta, Mother and Me” is a welcome addition to the growing body of autobiographical works by Arab women now available in English. One thinks, for example, of “A Border Passage: From Cairo to America – a Woman’s Journey,” written by Makdisi’s childhood friend Leila Ahmed and published in 1999. More..

xcultural roundup
BY SAMI ASMAR
“Palestinian Arab Music: A Maqam Tradition in Practice” by Dalia Cohen and Ruth Katz, both professors of musicology at the Hebrew University, is a fascinating documentation comprising four decades of research. More..

xcultural roundup
BY ANDREA STANTON
Samir Khalaf’s “Heart of Beirut: Reclaiming the Bourj” is a lively and engaging look at one of central Beirut’s more storied areas: the open space downtown known today as Martyrs’ Square and historically as the sahhat bourj al-Kashef. Khalaf argues that the 2005 intifada’s use of this space is but the latest example of its function as a public sphere: embracing all comers, regardless of their background or degree of social marginalization, and supporting collective endeavors, whether intellectual, artistic, or political, that critique the city’s norms. More..

xcultural roundup
BY PAMELA NICE
“‘Evil’ Arabs in American Popular Film” is an analysis of selected American films to prove author Tim Semmerling’s main point: the portrayal of Arabs in American cinema since 1973 reveals more about Americans and their orientalist fears than about actual Arabs. Semmerling insists that we focus on the cultural ethos out of which such stereotyping emerges. He wants to prove that American filmmakers have given Americans mirrors in which to see their own cherished ideologies and myths threatened by the demonized Arab. More..

Film Review
baghdad twist

Film Review

Film Review
four wives, one man

Film Review
Bloody Cartoon
Occupational, Political Hazards of Free Speech
BY LYNNE ROGER— "Bloody Cartoons" — When Fleming Rose, the editor of the liberal independent newspaper, Jylands-Posten, approached the 72-year-old Kurt Westergaard for a cartoon responding “to the provocation by terrorists who use religion as their spiritual ammunition,” these two unlikely Dutch men ignited a diplomatic explosion. More...

Film Review
Young Freud
Voice given to the forgotten: Young Freud in Gaza
BY REBECCA JOUBIN—“Young Freud in Gaza” presents an often forgotten human dimension to Palestinian suffering and the trauma of living under Israeli occupation. Through the therapy sessions of a young psychologist, Ayad, who works for the Palestinian Authority’s Clinic for Mental Health, the filmmakers delve into a psychological level in the society that is often forgotten. More...

Film Review
Yellow House
Searching for truth on the road to Batna: "The Yellow House (La Maison Jaune)"
BY REBECCA JOUBIN— The joy of the wedding procession on the road, which begins the movie, is interrupted by the messenger arriving at the door of a family only to inform them of the sudden death of their son, Belcacem, a conscript. When the mother is stricken with pain from the shock, the eldest daughter gets a ride on the wedding procession to go out to the fields and inform her father that his son has died. More...

Film Review
Salt if the Sea
Maps and Ruins: History as Mythical Creation
 BY SALAM MIR—"Salt of the Sea" is a mixture of fiction and fact that tells the story of Soraya and Emad within the framework of occupation and colonialism. More...

Film Review
To ss if I'm smiling
Guns and Ghosts in the House
BY LYNNE ROGERS— In a recent postcolonial trend, fiction humanizes the villain, the torturer, the collaborator and the occupier. Now, the documentary that won multiple, well-deserved awards, “To See if I’m Smiling,” elicits a painful sympathy for the Israeli female soldiers who, like so many other soldiers before them, participate in sustained acts of cruelty while a tiny voice of their former selves momentarily dreams of protest. More...

Film Review
A Womans Experience of Justice
A Women's Experience of Justice
BY SIMONE STEVENS— The documentary, "Three Times Divorced," is about the hardships many women in the MiddleEast experience when faced with divorce and disintegration of the family unit. It is a startling revelation about the limits of their independence and control; for the divorced woman, opportunity and freedom of choice are sadly absent. Disoriented, shoved from the home they’ve built, they are forced to string together a new world with little help from the community or the local government. More...

Film Review
dishonored
Speaking Out Against Tribal Injustice: Dishonored
BY BOBBY GULSHAN— Pakistan stands at a crossroads. Like many nations throughout the global south, this Muslim majority land struggles with collisions and contradictions borne from its unique history and contemporary reckoning with modernity. The forces of Islamic fundamentalism, indigenous tribal tradition, and Pakistan’s increasing relevance on the global scene, have conspired to create an air of contention and conflict. The international headlines often paint a bleak picture. More...

 
 
 

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