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

Review: Where Do We Go Now?

[caption id="attachment_55232644" align="alignnone" width="600"] Nadine Labaki in Where Do We Go Now (2011)[/caption] The film is a tale of one unspecified Arab village—likely in Lebanon where the…

Noam Schimmel

A Message of Tolerance

[caption id="attachment_55232622" align="alignnone" width="597"] His Holiness the Dalai Lama[/caption] Speaking with warmth and candor at LSE on Wednesday, the Dalai Lama called for greater respect…

Noam Schimmel

Still Adoring the Idea

[caption id="attachment_55232497" align="alignnone" width="620"] Traditional Ottoman army band perform during the 559th anniversary of the capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire.[/caption] …

Vedica Kant

Who'd be a Woman in Egypt?

[caption id="attachment_55232465" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Egyptian demonstrators shout slogans against former President Hosni Mubarak and members of former regime in Cairo's…

Alastair Beach

Protests Threaten Egypt Elections

[caption id="attachment_55232399" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Policemen clash with anti-Mubarak protesters. Anti and pro-Hosni Mubarak protest react after announcement of former…

Alastair Beach

A World of Possibilities

[caption id="attachment_55232344" align="alignnone" width="620" caption="Bibliotheca Alexandrina"][/caption] Bibliotheca Alexandrina will soon celebrate its tenth anniversary. The library offers a…

Noam Schimmel

Yesterday's Egypt

[caption id="attachment_55232318" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="The ghosts of the past haunt Egypt"][/caption] Shortages—of petrol, electricity, hard currency, patience—plague Egypt. But…

Stephen Glain

A Montage of Invasion

[caption id="attachment_55232250" align="alignnone" width="615" caption="Photo Op ( kennardPhillips/ Mosaic Rooms)"][/caption] You may recognise kennardphillips’ Photo Op. It is a photomontage of…

Celia Topping

The Not-So-Quiet Arab Americans

[caption id="attachment_55232040" align="alignnone" width="620" caption="Hayan Charara"][/caption] [inset_left]Inclined to Speak: an Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry Edited by Hayan…

Noam Schimmel