essays
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Palestinian Problem at Half a Century
A Brief Introduction by the Author. I rarely passed on an Al Nakba remembrance, an event which was pivotal in forming my political and moral consciousness during my early [...]
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. [...]
ESSAYS ON ANCIENT TEXTS
by Emilio Spedicato (Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Bergamo, release 4, December 2014). Dedicated to: Mario Alinei, Mario Pincherle and Kamal Salibi, whose work [...]
GEOGRAPHY AND NUMERICS OF EDEN, KHARSAG AND PARADISE: SUMERIAN AND ENOCHIAN SOURCES VERSUS THE GENESIS TALE
by Emilio Spedicato, University of Bergamo. Abstract In two papers [1,2] we have analyzed the geographical data referring to the Garden of Eden, the place where [...]
No Loyalty Even for a Loyalist: Stories from Syria’s ‘World of Ghosts’ (Ahmad’s Story)
by Elie Chalala. Over the years, we have devoted a generous space to covering dissent by Arab intellectuals, especially the Syrians. We believed that most of those who were [...]
ON ETRUSCAN LANGUAGE
an essay in English by Massimo Pittau. In the last 70 years, in Italy, with regard to Etruscan language, several and authentic linguistic “obviousnesses” have [...]
Prison: Geography of Despotism
By Hala Muhammad Prison: A Geography of Despotism without a Place in the Nation A picture of a wood stove warms hearts. The gas stove in the picture has an odor. The prisoner [...]
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