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VOL. 23, NO. 76, 2019
Essays & Features
The War Produced More than 50 Novels: Experience and Expression of Conflict Creates Crossroads Moment in Syrian Literature
By Abdo Wazen
‘Sexuality in the Arab World’: Book Attempts to Shed Multi-Faceted Light on Subject Long in the Shadows
By Mouhamad Houjeiri
The Arabic Novel: The Voice of an Oppressed People
By Shaker al-Anbari
Siham Nasser: Lebanese Playwright, Fiery Promoter of an Independent Theater, Dies at 69
By Elie Chalala
May Menassa: Journalist, Novelist Wrote in the Black Ink of War and Tragedy
By Elie Chalala
For a Friend Sorely Missed
Moayyad al-Rawi (1939-2015)
By Elie Chalala
Ali al-Shawk in the Eyes of One Acquaintance
By Mahmoud Saeed
Twentieth-Century Lebanese Beauty and Unappreciated Intellectual May Ziadeh at Center of Controversy Now as Then
By Elie Chalala
Marie Colvin: The Real ‘Rose in the Desert’
Iconic, Storied Reporter Faithfully Depicted the Human Cost of War
By Naomi Pham
New Book on Adonis: A ‘Rehabilitation’ Biography?
By Elie Chalala
Egyptian Novelist Alaa al-Aswany’s Career: A Study in Irony That Outdoes Any Novel!
By Elie Chalala and Naomi Pham
Late Entry for Arabic Booker Award Prompts Renewed Outcry for Judging Reform
By Elie Chalala and Naomi Pham
Films
Two Films Document Hope, Anxiety of ‘Arab Spring’s’ Early Days
By Lynne Rogers
How an American-Qatari Couple Make It WorkBy Lynne Rogers
Three Women, One Struggle: Film Documents Social Workers’ Efforts for Social Justice
By Lynne Rogers
Documentary Examines Different Narratives of Lebanese War From Perspectives of Major Participants
By Naomi Pham
Fiction
The Red Spell
By Hanna Saadah
Interviews
To Leave... And To Return: An Exclusive Interview With ‘The Other Americans’ Author, Immigrant Novelist Laila Lalami
By Bobby Gulshan
Books
Mystery Upon Mystery: A Quebecois Mosque Shooting
By Lynne Rogers
In Madness of Beirut’s Civil War, New Novel Set ‘Above the Cemetery Road’
By Angele Ellis
Generational Domestic Abuse in a Palestinian-American Family
By Lynne Rogers
What is the Property of the Landless? New Book Examines Issue of Palestinian Refugees’ ‘Property Rights’
By D.W. Aossey
Cultural Criticism As Comedy in El Guindi’s “Selected Works”
By Priscilla Wathington
Mustafa Khalifa’s ‘The Shell’ Latest Example of Literature Offering Insight of Syrian Ordeal
By Fawaz Azem
The Sexual Unconscious of the Arab Revolutions
By Pamela Nice
An American Mystery Told By ‘Other Americans’
By Lynne Rogers
Poetry
Personification
By Moayyad Al-Rawi
The Sun is Setting
By Moayyad Al-Rawi
Parting
By Moayyad Al-Rawi
Siege
By Moayyad Al-Rawi
Art
Incessant Rhythm and Movement: Doris Bittar’s Culturally Inclusive Patterns
By Tatiana Sizonenko
Cover Artist
“Tarab Soundings 6” (2019) by Doris Bittar
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