Contents

Essays & Features

2. On Critics of Lebanon 's IndependenceUprising

by Elie Chalala

4. The Other Prison

by Mohammad Ali Atassi

12. Disoriented Lebanon

by Carole Corm

17. Marxist, Rationalist, Orientalist: Remembering the Many Facets of Maxime Rodinson

by Brigitte Caland

20. Charles Malik: Intellectual Legacy Marred by Parochial Lebanese Politics

by Iskandar Mansour

24. From Harem to Civil Society: The Journey ofFatima Mernissi

by Yassin Adnan

26. Devastation of History: Looting ThreatensIraq 's Ancient Sites

by Judith Gabriel

29. The Knight who Came Home to be Slain

by Pierre Abisaab

Interviews

9. Words Behind Bars: Syrian Poet Faraj Bairqadar Speaks after 14 Years of Detention

by Mohammad Ali Atassi

13. Riadh al-Turk: In and Out of Syrian Prison

by Mohammad Ali Atassi

28. Beyond Morocco 's Literary Divide: Interview with Leila Abouzeid

by Pamela Nice

46. Saad Chrabi: L'amourreur du cinema

by Pamela Nice

Films

30. Lebanese United by Voice of Fairuz

by Brigitte Caland

31. 'Return to Kandahar ,' a Personal Journey of Memory

by Sara Hahn

32. New Documentaries Examine Consequences of 'War on Terror'

by Lynne Rogers

Music

48. Iraqi Traditional Music Revisited in a War Era

Al Jadid Staff Writers

49. New Um Kulthoum Biography Searches Behind the Legend

by Beige Luciano-Adams

Books

34. A Search for Identity in Foreign Lands

by Sara Hahn

36. Sharp Analysis, Unanswered Questions

by Paul Sullivan

37. A Vision of Arab- American Underworld in 'Souls'

by Shakir Mustafa

38. New Arab American Anthology: Antidote to Cultural Ignorance

by Judith Gabriel

40. The Paradox of Religious Democracy

by Faisal Tbeileh

42. Etel Adnan's New Language: Poems that Rewrite Masculine Discourse

by Rim Zahra and Razzan Zahra

43. When the Personal and Political Meet

by Greta Anderson

43. Tears in the Holy Land : Voices from Israel and Palestine

by Lynne Rogers

44. A Moroccan Cinema of Proximity

by Pamela Nice

Poems

8. The Illusion of Place

by Moayed Al-Rawi

Cover Artist

50. Salah Saouli