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
[inset_left]Hamas: From Resistance to Government
By Paola Caridi
Seven Stories Press, New York
[/inset_left]In this new book, Italian journalist and historian Paola Caridi sets herself an ambitious…
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Adel Imam’s case is one…
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“Me being a Palestinian, I guess, may have something to do with the…
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At a time when diplomacy and journalism seem not to be doing much for Syria,…
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The Qatar Philharmonic is not just another classical music hall,…
The aftermath of an Arab Spring was initially a time of joy for the role many women played during those days of revolution. However, from West to East, there is still much to be accomplished. The…
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The exhibition opened explosively—literally—over a vast…
In Egypt, on the eleventh of February 2011—the night president Hosni Mubarak resigned and handed over power to the army—a revolution was on the move, but the next day, it was a female reporter who…
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No other country in the Middle East has an Opera House with a history of almost…
Israel's commandeering of aid distribution in Gaza forces starving Palestinians to run the gauntlet at centres with biometric monitoring systems, armed security, and life-or-death hazards