Etab Hreib on Conflict, Commercialism , and Sexism in Syria’s Current Art Movement
Critically acclaimed Syrian watercolorist, Etab Hreib, a native of Der-Ez-Zor, graduated from the Graphic Arts Department of the University of Damascus. Since then, she has exhibited her work in various parts of the world. She was the recipient of the Al-Mahros Golden Award in Tunisia, a Golden Award from the Chinese Ministry of Culture, and an award from the Ministry of Culture in Algeria.
Evelyn Shakir: Memoirs of an Arab-American Writer, Teacher, and Humanist
Teaching Arabs, Writing Self, Memoirs of an Arab-American Woman
By Evelyn Shakir
Olive Branch Press. 2014. 170 pp.
Documentary Film Gives Voice to the Erotic Body
Jasad & The Queen of Contradictions
A film by Amanda Homsi-Ottosson
Women Make Movies, 2011, 40 minutes
The Only Diner in the Restaurant: A Travel Writer’s Perspective on the Arab Spring
A Tourist in the Arab Spring
By Tom ChesshyreBradt Travel Guides, Ltd.
Bradt Travel Guides, Ltd.The Globe Pequot Press Inc., 2013
The Globe Pequot Press Inc., 2013
The American Mirage: Immigrant or “Un-American?”
In the House UN-AmericanBy Benjamin Hollander
By Benjamin HollanderClockroot Books, 2013
Clockroot Books, 2013
The Uncompromising Voice of Syrian Screenwriter Fouad Hamira
Fouad Hamira, who began as an employee in the National Theater, has gone on to become one of the leading voices in Syrian television drama. He is renowned for his unwillingness to compromise with the forces of societal and political oppression. His controversial “Ghazlan fi Ghabat al-Dhi‘ab” (Gazelles in a Forest of Wolves), which was filled with a poignant critique of corruption and the abusive nature of power, was finally allowed to air in 2006, although he had written the miniseries 15 years earlier.