Five defining literary works all published a century ago in 1925

Analysing Franz Kafka's The Trial, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer, and Ernest Hemingway's debut story collection In Our Time

Mukhlis Al-Saghir

Romney, Culture, and the Middle East

[caption id="attachment_55233321" align="aligncenter" width="620"] US Repulican party presidential candidate Mitt Romney stands in front of a picture of the Jerusalem Old City walls at an event in…

Stephen Glain

Stories from Syria

[caption id="attachment_55233313" align="alignnone" width="620"] The Fear of Breathing [/caption] Rarely has theatre responded so swiftly to pressing current events as with the production of the play…

Noam Schimmel

A Life Cut Short

[caption id="attachment_55233236" align="alignnone" width="620"] Anthony Shadid[/caption] House of Stone is both memoir and meditation and a distinctive contribution to Arab-American literature and…

Noam Schimmel

Arab Summer in London

[caption id="attachment_55233189" align="alignnone" width="620"] Nermine Hammam Upekkha series[/caption] Art at the Mosaic Rooms A solo show of the Egyptian artist Nermine Hammam at the Mosaic…

Noam Schimmel

Notion of Freedom

[caption id="attachment_55233166" align="alignnone" width="620"] (Credit: Samir Sayegh)[/caption] Calligraphy has always been a part of the development of written language. Calligraphy by Muslim…

Ati Metwaly

Meeting Bahaa Taher

[caption id="attachment_55232938" align="alignnone" width="620"] Bahaa Taher[/caption] Bahaa Taher was born 1935, in Giza (Greater Cairo), to parents from the Karnak village in the Luxor governorate…

Ati Metwaly

Informal Iranians

[caption id="attachment_55232857" align="alignnone" width="620"] This Is Not a Film - Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb (2011)[/caption] White Rabbit, Red Rabbit by Nassim Soleimanpour, a young…

Nicholas Blincoe

Secrets of the Arabian Horse

[caption id="attachment_55232772" align="alignnone" width="620"] Standard of Ur, southern Iraq, circa 2600-2400 BC[/caption] How many courtly poems have been written to the Arabian horse? How many…

Juliet Highet