Literature and Arts from the Center of the World
ننشر فصلًا من كتاب "سلوى: سيرة بلا نهاية لكريم جمال، حيث يسرد لنا يومًا في حياة المذيعة المصرية الشهيرة قضته في مدينة بورسعيد بعد سنوات قليلة من النكسة. يلقي المؤلف الضوء على جوانب نُسيت من حياة سلوى، لنتعرف على الإنسانة التي انتظر الملايين ظهورها وحواراتها في تلك الفترة من التاريخ…
A review of how some of history’s greatest civilizations' collapse presents ominous parallels with our present predicament.
The Turkish government has reintegrated Ahlat into the national narrative, but its history is more complex than acknowledged.
A book addressing the Adana massacre and exploring the events and dynamics that lead to acts of violence and why ordinary people commit them.
Maha Al Aswad sheds light on Egyptian writer Mohammad Hafez Ragab, a literary figure of the 1960s whose works have been vastly overlooked.
Nektaria Anastasiadou writes about her decision to pen her works using the historically fractured language of the Istanbul dialect of Greek.
Dalia Sofer reviews Reza Aslan's latest book on American Howard Baskerville, "martyred" alongside revolutionary students in Iran in 1909.
Salma Ahmad Caller reflects on curating a unique museum-quality exhibition of postcards and objects orientalizing women
Ahmed Farouk, the Arabic translator of Günter Grass, W. G. Sebald and Rosa Luxemburg, among others, struggles with Walter Benjamin.
Filmmaker and historian Viola Shafik muses on German art, colonialism and restitution in Berlin.
Film curator and scholar Irit Neidhardt searches for clues to the Berlin disappearance of gramophone tycoon Michel Baida.