Essays and Features

Burning Questions – Review Debunks Honor-Crime Memoir

Therese Taylor

AAUG and ADS Conventions Beirut Hosts Two Arab-American Events

Samar Barakat

Failed Ideology Stands in as Alibi

Elie Chalala

Said’s Books Banned in Palestine

Al Jadid Staff

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

Nancy Linthicum

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

Iskandar Mansour

TV Documentary Series on Nezar Kabbani: Exercise in Commercialization by Sanitization

Mohammad Ali Atassi

Circumnavigating Islam: The Novel Prize and the Fury of V. S. Naipaul

Judith Gabriel

Drawing Out Displacement

Catherine Hamel

Thirteen Hours of Interrogation

Mohammad Ali al-Atassi

The morning of September 18th, Syrian director and film producer Omar Amirlay drove from his home in Damascus to Amman, Jordan. Four months earlier he had begun a daring project to establish the first Arab school of cinema – the Arab Film Institute.

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