Essays & Features

2.  Martyrdom, Violence, and the Passion for Sanctity, by Elie Haddad

4.  Thirteen Hours of Interrogation,

by Mohammed Ali Atassi

8.  Cairo’s Fourth Pyramid: Reflections on Naguib Mahfouz, by Amin Malak

10. Naguib Mahfouz: Characters Develop Alongside their Creator,

by Mohammed Dakroub

12.  Naguib Mahfouz the Pyramid,

by Alawiyya Sobh

14.  A Father to the Point of Tears,

by Faraj Bayrakdar

16.  Waiting to Exhale…,

by Souad Dajani

20.  Sheikh Zakariyah Ahmad (1896-1961): The Life of a Composer,

by Sahar Taha

films

24.  Women and the Road in the Middle East, by Nadia Yaqub

25.  In his Footsteps, by Inês Santos

28.  Only Whispers of Chnage in Saudi Women’s Struggle, by Inês Santos

films in brief

26.  “Lessons in Fear,” “At the Green Line,” “Hide Your Words,” and “Point

of Attack,” by Rebecca Romani

music

29.  Singing ‘Ud on New CD from Marcel Khalife, by Sami Asmar

interviews

30.  Iraqi Literature Flourishing Amid Bombs and Tanks, by Rebecca Joubin

books

32. The Facets of Palestinian Art, by Doris Bittar

34. Timeless Voice of History’s Objects, by Carel Bertram

36.  Injustice, Fear, Bombast - Targets of Farzat’s Pen, by Rana Kabbani

38.  Cooking and Writing Arab America, by Pauline Homsi Vinson

42.  Church and State: Conflictual Twins, by Faisal Tbeileh

45.  New Fiction and the Post 9/11 Arab American Experience, by Pauline Homsi Vinson

46.  Three New Anthologies, a Cultural Mission to English Readers, by Lynne Rogers

47.  Burdened Histories, by Bhakti Shringarpure

 48.  Moving Toward the Light: A Century of Immigration from Assimilation to Emergence, by Judith Gabriel

50.  From Beirut to Oklahoma: Lebanese-American’s Novel Blends Poetry, Medicine, by Judith Gabriel

51.  New York’s Mean Streets in New Melhem Edition, by Judith Gabriel

books in brief

52.  “Anti Arab Racism in the USA,” and “Voices of Resistance,” by Arlen Jones

obituary

54.  Syrian Author Salma al-Haffar Kuzbari Remembered, by Joseph Mouallem

exhibitions

56.  Golden Age of Arab Science at L’Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris,

by Brigitte Caland

cultural briefings

7.  Playing Politics with Art, by Al Jadid Staff Writers

13.  contributors