With Brecht, Rabih Mroué & Lina Majdalanie Deconstruct Fascism
The new Lebanese performance, "Four Walls and a Roof," uses trial testimony, humor, and Eisler-Brecht songs to address the rise of the right.
The new Lebanese performance, "Four Walls and a Roof," uses trial testimony, humor, and Eisler-Brecht songs to address the rise of the right.
"Suspended Disbelief" interrogates the tension between belief and doubt in the folklore and collective psyche of the Mediterranean region.
في حوار مع مجلة المركز، تتحدث الروائية البحرينية ليلى المطوع عن نصوصها وما يؤثر عليها. نشرت ليلى روايتها الثانية «المنسيون بين ماءين» منذ شهور قليلة، كتب عنها عدد كبير من النقاد والروائيين العرب، في حفاوة لم تتكرر منذ مدة.
تتحدث الكاتبة المصرية نورا ناجي مطولًا عن ما تكتب، وكيف كان تأثير ثورة يناير 2011 عليها كبيرًا ومركبًا، وكيف تنظر إلى تلك الثورة اليوم. تصدر قريبًا أحدث روايات نورا «بيت الجاز» عن دار الشروق.
يتحدث الكاتب المصري حسين فوزي عن بدايات الكتابة، وعن تصوراته عن ما يكتب. صدرت مجموعة حسين الأولى «مشروع التخرج» منذ أيام عن دار وزيز.
يتحدث نائل الطوخي عن تأثير دراسة اللغة العبرية عليه وعلى ما يكتب، وعن عاداته في الكتابة والتحرير.
Long-time diasporic translators discuss the art of translation, from Arabic to English, identifying intersections and divergences along their paths.
Rana Haddad interviews hybrid hopscotching writer Michael Vatikiotis on his colorful life and work spanning continents.
Syrian filmmaker Soudade Kaadan is a jury member of the 81st Venice Film Festival, and the only Arab woman director to have won twice in Venice.
Amy Omar speaks to Ayşegül Savaş about her third novel, cinema and capturing the transitory phases of life.
Featured artist Deena Mohamed is an accomplished Egyptian graphic novelist and author of the fantasy trilogy "Shubeik Lubeik" [Your Wish Is My Command].
An interview with an actress performing on stage in Iran without a hijab and who is no longer taking on roles that require official approval.
The Franco-Algerian star of Zebda, a major pop band 1985-2015, has become a writer to reckon with, in this interview by Sarah Naili.
Six women artists and curator Nadine Khalil explore women's bodies in a Dubai exhibition, in an interview by Naima Morelli.
A Libyan writer from Derna laments the floods that came not long after she devoted a short story collection to her hometown.