Tawfiq al-Hakim: Foretelling the Youth Revolution
Women of the Revolutions: The New Faces of Arab Feminism
Feminism Inshallah: A History of Arab Feminism
Directed by Feriel Ben Mahmoud
Women Make Movies, 2014
Nada’s Revolution
Directed by Claudia Lisboa
Women Make Movies, 2014
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).
‘The Jewish Quarter:’
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.
As 20th Century Begins, British ‘Orientalism’ Tool of Colonialism
Reading Arabia: British Orientalism in the Age of Mass Publication 1880 –1930
By Andrew C. Long
Syracuse University Press, 2014. 264 pp.