Essays & Features
2. Cultural Briefings, The Editors
6. Lebanese Immigrants in Australia: Growing Up in a Culture of Taxi Driving by Christine Eid
8. The Season of Tayeb Salih – Crossing the Boundaries by Lynne Rogers
10. Kennedy Center Festival Underscores Growing Interest in Arab Literature by Andrea Shalal-Esa
12. Monkith Saaid: Fingertips Grasping Space by Shawqi Abd Al-Amir
13. In Memoriam: Suheil Idriss (1925-2008) by Mahmoud Saeed
14. Abstract Sculpture Cropping Up in Beirut’s Public Spaces by Rima Barakat
Interviews
16. Sculptor Monkith Saaid Before His Passing by Bandar Abd Al-Hamid
20. Connecting the Dots: An Interview with Ahda Soueif by Andrea Shalal-Esa
Exhibitions
32. “Deportation Nation”: Visual Migrations by D. W. Aossey
Films
23. Films in Brief/ Five Films
Reviewed by Rebecca Joubin
25. “Bloody Cartoons”
Reviewed by Lynne Rogers
25. “Dishonored”
Reviewed by Bobby Gulshan
26. “Three Times Divorced”
Reviewed by Simone Stevens
27. “Salt of This Sea”
Reviewed by Salam Mir
28. “Tangier Treehouse”
Reviewed by Lynne Rogers
28. “Waltz with Bashir”
Reviewed by Brigitte Caland
Books
34. “Dissident Syria” by Miriam Cooke
Reviewed by Etel Adnan
35. “Conscience of the Nation” by Richard Jacquemond
Reviewed by Michael Najjar
36. “Chicago” by Alaa al-Aswany
Reviewed by Susan Muaddi Darraj
37. “The Veil” by Jennifer Heath (ed.)
Reviewed by Simone Stevens
38. “Mahmoud Darwish: Exile’s Poet, Critical Essays” by Hala Khamis Nasser and Najat Rahman (eds.)
Reviewed by Lynne Rogers
39. “Hezbollah: A Short History” by Augustus Richard Norton
Reviewed by Michael Teague
40. “Seasons” by Etel Adnan
Reviewed by Mark Grimes
41. “Building On Desert Tides” by Ronald Hawker
Reviewed by Doris Bittar
42. “Distant Train” by Ibrahim Abdel Megid
Reviewed by Najat Rahman
43. “So What: New and Selected Poems, 1971-2005” by Taha Muhammad Ali
Reviewed by Zaid Shlah
44. “My American Bride” by Elie A. Salem
Reviewed by Sarah A. Rogers
45. “The New Belly Dancer of the Galaxy” by Frances Khirallah Noble
Reviewed by Theri Alyce Pickens
46. “Santa Claus in Baghdad” by Elsa Marston
Reviewed by D. W. Aossey
46. “Another Arabesque” by John Tofik Karam
Reviewed by Pauline Homsi Vinson
47. “Taqsim” by Zaid Shlah
Reviewed by Theri Alyce Pickens
47. “My Thousand and One Nights: A Novel of Mecca” by Raja Alem and Tom McDonough
Reviewed by Hilary Hesse
48. “Arab On Radar” by Angele Ellis
Reviewed by Zaid Shlah
50. Building the Future While Embracing the Past
Three Reviews by D. W. Aossey
52. “Amorisco” by Khaled Mattawa
Reviewed by Etel Adnan
56. “The Minbar of Saladin” by Lynette Singer (ed.)
Reviewed by Simone Fattal
Poems
9. Two Poems by Mahmoud Darwish
22. Three poems by Ghada Samman
38. Contributors
52. Cover Artist
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