Cultural Briefings
New Issue of Al Jadid
Al Jadid is just out (Vol. 19, No. 68). The cover (“Encoded History 1” 2015) by Doris Bittar. Al Jadid is a Review & Record of Arab Culture and Arts (www.aljadid.com).
Al Nakba at 67: Generations of Catastrophes
I rarely passed on an Al Nakba remembrance, an event which was pivotal in forming my political and moral consciousness during my early days in Beirut and in my academic diaspora. Nowadays, I reserve my aggravation for those intellectual cowards who saw nothing in Al Nakba except a shelter to hide from their shameful silence on one of the most horrific “Nakbas” in modern Arab history.
Sorry Abu Al Ala: In Revolution, There's Little Time to Mourn
A Sister Mourns a Martyr
To Sawsan Hakki: "O Sawsan: Your Smile Shines from Beneath Syria's Dust."
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"Riyad al-Sunbati:
the Philosopher of Arab Music"
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Editor's Notebook
From Within and Without the Arab World
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Culture of the Abyss
New generation of Lebanese politicians reveals further decline in quality of leadership
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Aleppo: A Tale of Three Cities
A sense of humanity must mean a sense of 'surprise' at inhumanity
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