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Remembering Abou Ali Yassin: A Life of Struggle, by Mahmoud Saeed

Remembering Hani al-Rahib: Death Ends Novelist's Portrayal of Arab World in Crisis, by Mahmoud Saeed

Iraqi Intellectuals: Victims of Repression and Sanctions, by Mahmoud Saeed

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

Homage to Early Lebanese Immigrants, by Euegene Paul Nassar

Disrepair and Neglect Mar Gibran Memorial, by Stan Shabaz.

Burning Questions – Review Debunks Honor-Crime Memoir, By Therese Taylor.

Father of Neo-Realism in Egyptian Cinema Passes Away By Al Jadid Staff Writers

Al Jadid Magazine Begins Second Decade: Quality Coverage and Dynamic Change

AAUG and ADS Conventions Beirut Hosts Two Arab-American Events By Samar Barakat

‘Degenerate’ Pop: Threat to Arab Music Renaissance or Mere Sign of the Times? by Nancy Linthicum

Mahmoud Darwish Indicts Modern Arab Poets by Nancy Linthicum

Failed Ideology Stands in as Alibi, by Elie Chalala

Said’s Memoir Takes Its Place Amid Attempts to Discredit Compiled and edited by Al Jadid staff

Said’s Books Banned in Palestine Compiled and edited
by Al Jadid staff

". . . Bemoan a Wound"
Kuwaiti Writers Convicted
 by Al Jadid Staff

Lebanon Redeems a Tradition of Freedom
Court Exonerates Khalife of All Charge
 by Al Jadid Staff

Alfred Basbous (1924-2006): Legacy of Three Brothers Turns Lebanese Village of Rachana into a Global Center of Sculpture, by Nancy Linthicum


George Hawi (1938-2005): A Man for All Seasons by Iskandar Mansour

Egyptian Playwright Alfred Farag Dies at Age 76: Prison, Exile and Triumph through Theater by Dina Amin.

TV Documentary Series on Nezar Kabbani: Exercise in Commercialization by Sanitization, by Mohammad Ali Atassi

Circumnavigating Islam by Judith Gabriel

Drawing Out Displacement by Catherine Hamel

 

Thirteen Hours of Interrogation BY MOHAMMED ALI ATASSI

Remembering Salma al-Haffar Kuzbari by Joseph Mouallem

Playing Politics with Art by Al Jadid Staff

Controversial Image of Lebanon War Wins Photo Prize, by Mohammed Ali Atassi.

Mideast Political Paradoxes Put to Words and Music--Bahraini Democracy Threatened by Majnun Laila’s Musical, by Kelly O’Brien.


Arabs Making Their Mark in
Latin America: Generations of Immigrants in Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico, by Habeeb Salloum.

Schehadeh and Gibran: An Unusual Encounter, by Etel Adnan.

A Father to the Point of Tears By FARAJ BEIRQADAR

Naguib Mahfouz the Pyramid By ALAWIYYA SOBH

Naguib Mahfouz: Characters Develop Alongside their Creator By MOHAMMED DAKROUB

Ghada Samman: A Writer of Many Layers By Pauline Homsi Vinson

‘War Photographer’—Chasing Peace through Horrors By Judith Gabriel

Passion for Modernizing and Popularizing  Instrumental Arab Music BY SAMI ASMAR


Gulf Capital and Arab Satellite Television
BY MOHAMMAD ALI  ATASSI

Sensationalized Spin, Radical Rhetoric Pass for News and Debate BY MOHAMMAD ALI ATASSI

The Arab Novel: Visions of Social Reality By Andrea Shalal-Esa
 

Children of Our Alley: Mahfouz Award Fuels Schism in Egyptian Literary Field By Samia Mehrez

Issam Mahfouz (1939-2006): Recalling Poet, Playwright, Critic as the Attractive Modernist
by Mohammad Dakroub

 

Mahfouz Surveys 'Fertile Soil' of Future: Optimism Survives Literary, Bodily Blow 


Edwar al-Kharrat and the Modernist Revolution in the Egyptian Novel By Amal Amireh


Entering its 11th Year: Al Jadid Magazine Begins Second Decade Quality – Coverage, and Dynamic Change. By Elie Chalala

Assia Djebar Elected to French Academy: Immortal Sycophant or Courageous Humanist? By Lynne Rogers

Invasion of the Sun-Painters By Judith Gabriel


The Other Prison
by Mohammad Ali Atassi.

Memoir of Arab-American Life In The 1930s by Fred M. Saidy


Louis Awad's Secular Tradition; Samir Nakash's Love of Arab Culture; Rethinking Edward Said's ‘Orientalism'; Arab Satellite TV Funding – By Beige Luciano-Adams

A Year After Sunset: Remembering Amina Rizk By Miranda Bechara

War, Peace and Garbage By Hanan Chebib

A Letter from Beirut:

Disoriented Lebanon by Carole Corm.

The Knight who Came Home to be Slain by Pierre Abisaab.

Poets Charge Fadwa Tuqan

Slighted in Arab-French Poetry Festival By Sara Hahn.

Imagining Lebanon Through

Rahbani Musicals By Elise Salem

Camera Obscura:Documentary Brings

Forbidden Images to American Viewers By Judith Gabriel

Al Jazeera Remains in the Hot Seat By Judith Gabriel

Andrée Chedid's

"WOUNDED BEIRUT " By Mona Takieddine Amyuni

A Century After Qasim Amin:

Fictive Kinship and Historical Uses of

" Tahrir al-Mara '" By Malek Abisaab and Rula Jurdi Abisaab

Vision: Arab-American Literary Criticism By Steven Salaita

Fadwa Tuqan:

An Arab Electra By Abbas Beydoun

The Victim Of Beauty:

Reviving the Literary Legacy of Mai Ziadeh By Ghada Samman

In Al Nakba’s 50th Anniversary,

Adonis Denounces Arab Chauvinistic Voices By Elie Chalala

Fateh Al-Moudarres,

Syrian Artist Who Fought

for Justice with Brush, Pen By Abd al-Rahman Munif

Deadly Identities By Amin Maalouf

'The Secret Of Being A Woman'

On Etel Adnan's Quest By Mona Takieddine

Edward Said is Our Conscience

and Ambassador to the Human Consciousness By Mahmoud Darwish

A Legacy of Change: Edward Said's Impact

on U.S. Campus, Discourse, and Activism By Elie Chalala

Beirut Hosts a Conference on Edward Said By Nezar Andary

Said Speaks Out Before and After 9-11:

Muffling the Arab Voice By Judith Gabriel

Novelist Abd al-Rahman Munif Mourned

Detroit - Arab Capital of North America by Habeeb Salloum

Remembering Latifa al-Zayyat By Amal Amireh

Salute to Shirin Ebadi By Adonis

Adonis' Warning to Intellectuals: Western & Arab by Elie Chalala

Iraqi Violence Demystified by Shakir Luabi

A Legacy of Ruins:

Iraqi Letters and Intellectuals

Under Saddam's Regime by Mahmoud Saeed

Arab-American Writers Identify

with Communities of Color by Andrea Shalal-Esa

Torture, Imprisonment,

and Political Assassination in the Arab Novel by Sabry Hafez

Who Is Being Veiled? By Etel Adnan

An Odyssey of Words:

Evolution of the Arabic Language in the 20th Century by Georgine Ayoub

Letter from Beirut :

Lebanon Loses What War Did Not Destroy By Etel Adnan

Adonis Indicts Arabic Poetry,

Past and Present by Elie Chalala

Chronicles of Dark Humor:

Palestinian Filmmaker Snubbed by Oscar, by Judith Gabriel

Science in the Arab World:

Between Ideals and Reality, by Samir Mattar

The Autumn of Literature:

The Dictator as Novelist by Elias Khoury

The Hyphenated Author:

Emerging Genre of 'Arab-American Literature'

Poses Questions of Definition, Ethnicity and Art By Lisa Suhair Majaj

Profile of an Arab Daughter by Elmaz Abinader

My Life, Myself, and the World By Sahar Khalifeh

Emergence of a Genre:
Reviewing Arab American Writers
 By Judith Gabriel

Letter From Cairo
US Mideast Policy Bewilders Egyptian Intellectuals
 By Pamela Nice

Um Kulthum by Mai Ghoussoub

Lebanon's Summer Festivals by Etel Adnan

A Personal Vision of Poetry by Amal al-Jubburi

Many Causes Underlie Assassinations
of Algerian Journalists and Intellectuals
  by Elie Chalala

Ghali Shukri: Journalist, Author, Critic,
Leaves Legacy of Cultural Influence
 by Elie Chalala

Arab Intellectuals Rally
to Defend Creative Freedom
 By Elie Chalala

Defining the Translator By Samuel Hazo

Voices Against the Darkness:
In Defense of Marcel Khalife

A Special Section

Al Jadid on Adonis -- A Poet Responds
Some Further Remarks on Arabic Poetry
 By Etel Adnan

We Turn the Page from City to City By Marcel Khalifé

Egypt, Other Mideast Countries
See Earliest Stage of AIDS Epidemic
 By Cesar Chelala

Generations of Catastrophe:
The Palestinian Problem at Half a Century
  By Elie Chalala

Al Nakba Dark Ruins of the Tribal Poets
Tragedy Expressed via New Literary
Forms Infuses Half Century of Palestinian Poetry
 by Judith Gabriel

Arab Journals Provide Rich But Neglected
Sources for Study of Arab World
 By Nezar Andary

An Author Responds
The "Crime" of Disturbing Calm Waters with a Pen
 By Laila al-Othman

Nizar Kabbani's Erotics and Politics Embrace in Poetic World
of Reckless Women and Sultan's Daughters
 by Mohja Kahf

Publishing in the West:
Problems and Prospects for Arab Women Writers
 by Amal Amireh


Arab Cultural Notebooks - Arabic-Language Journals

 

". . . Bemoan a Wound" Kuwaiti Writers Convicted  by Al Jadid Staff

Lebanon Redeems a Tradition of Freedom
Court Exhonerates Khalife of All Charge
 by Al Jadid Staff



Mohammed Shukri: A Close Look :
Noted author Mohammed Shukri Dies at 68

Mohammed Shukri's 'The White Sparrow' and Its Message By Muhy Din Lazikani

Mohammed Shukri's 'The Plain Bread' is Target of Hostile Press, Academic Furor in Egypt By Judith Gabriel


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