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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
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Contributors
3. Cover Artist
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