Said Khatibi on confronting Algeria’s Black Decade

After winning the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, the Algerian novelist reflects on memory, violence, and his country's unresolved past

El-Sayed Hussein

Nadine Labaki: Beacon For Change

Nadine Labaki , first Arab female filmmaker to ever be nominated for an Oscar in the best foreign language film category is still continuing her quest to reinvent the film industry and transform the…

Majalla

Dancing To India’s Ancient Beat

If there is one thing that dancer Khalil Al Ashar finds particularly challenging, its being ‘exoticised’. But as the world’s only professional Arab performer of the ancient classical form called…

Meera Ravi