Contents

Essays & Features

4. Iraqi Journalist's Murder Targets
'Idea of Iraq,' by Judith Gabriel

6. Youssef al-Sayigh: Poet of Sorrows, Master of Contradictions, by Elie Chalala

10. Homage to the Early Lebanese Immigrants, by Eugene Paul Nassar

11. Woman as Scapegoat
by Ghada Samman

12. If Memory Serves: The Oral Iraqi Internet of Abu Halub, by Rebecca Joubin

26. Nahda Salah Balaa: Opening Doors for Arab Arts, by Fayeq Oweis
 

Films

14. "Arna's Children": An Israeli Activist's Family Saga, by Mohammed Ali Atassi

18. Friend of Emile Habibi Views ‘Israeli-Arab’ Reality Since Mentor's Death,
by Miko Peled

19. Speaking in Tongues: Film Examines Languages, by Brigitte Caland

Interviews

22. Bandar Abdel Hamid on Poetry, Cinema, and a Small Room, by Rebecca Joubin

24. To See and To See Again: Doris Bittar Looks at Lebanon Through Another Eye, by Rebecca Romani
 

Music

32. Arab World Music: From Andalus to Darweesh's Egypt, by Judith Gabriel

Poetry

23. "A Letter a Hundred Years On,"  by Bandar Abdul Hamid

Fiction

28. "Returning,"  by Salah el-Moncef Bin Khalifa

Exhibition

2. An Intimate Lens: Bittar's New Approach to Picturing the Middle East, by Rebecca Romani

Books

34. New Novel Chronicles Life, Love of Poet Ahmad Rami and Um Kulthum, by Sami Asmar

35. Shamah and the Mystic, by Pamela Nice

36. America Discovers 'Morocco," by Rebecca Romani

37. New Adonis Translation,  by Philip Daughtry

37. Sweeping Away 'Voyager,' by Mark Grimes

38. Modern Syrian Culture in Profiles, by Tom D'Evelyn

39. In the Shadow of Heroes and Lovers, by Lynne Rogers

42. The Pen Wielded by Women: Six New Works by Arab and Arab-American Writers, by Lynne Rogers

21. Contributors

3. Cover Artist