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Syrian Children and the Exit from the Dark Tunnel!
by Salam Kawakibi. For more than five decades, the Syrian child was subjected to an orderly process of upbringing to control the phases of his growth and maturity. Following [...]
Aleppo: A Catastrophe Defying Poets’ Powers of Description
by Amjad Nasser. When talking about what is happening in Syria, I face the inability of language to express reality. My vocabulary remains limited. My ability to describe [...]
The Syrian War Has Taken Us Prematurely to Hell!
by Father George Massouh. The crimes committed in Syria have surpassed what the human mind can imagine in terms of horrors and atrocities. Undoubtedly, in our cruel East, we [...]
Syrian Booknotes
by Elie Chalala. Since the 2011 March uprising, scores of books have been published on Syrian politics, with most written by a new generation of scholars with no longstanding [...]
From Harem to Civil Society: The Journey of Fatima Mernissi
by Yassin Adnan. For some years, Fatima Mernissi has remained absent from the limelight. While she has written books that have shaken both Arab and Western opinion for two [...]
A Subtle Approach to Unmasking the Assad Regime
by Bobby Gulshan. I struggled a bit to know what to say about PBS Frontline’s “Inside Assad’s Syria.” Searching the internet for reviews of the film, I found [...]
On the Lebanese Famine: an Essay
by Angele Ellis. Despite his almost uniformly dry and scholarly tone, Louis Farshee’s painstaking reconstruction of the famine that may have claimed as many as 375,000 [...]
Novelist Salwa Bakr Dares to Say it Aloud
by Elie Chalala. Revolution’s successes and failures; the taboos broken, how political Islam’s “holiness” mask dropped; the intelligentsia’s flight to the past [...]
Radwa Ashour (1946-2014) A Literary, Cultural and Political Activist Icon, Echoing in Egypt’s Valley
by Professor Nada Ramadan Elnahla. The valley was flooding with apparitions . . . Silence, followed by a crescendo. A sound that will echo in the valley years later. [...]
Lebanon and Algeria: Collective Memory and Cultural Trauma
by Wided Khadraoui. Literature can be a useful tool for confronting tragedies of the past. In their newest plays, Algerian playwright Slimane Benaissa and Lebanese [...]
Slave to History: A Moor in the New World
The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami Pantheon Books, 2014, pp. 324. In her new novel, Moroccan-American writer Laila Lalami, turns to the 1500’s Spanish conquest [...]
