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

Under the Skin of Hamas

[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…

Alex Edwards

Islamists on Art

[caption id="attachment_55231344" align="alignnone" width="620" caption="Adel Imam accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Doha Tribeca Film Festival"][/caption] Adel Imam’s case is one…

Ati Metwaly

Confronting Paradise

[caption id="attachment_55231107" align="alignnone" width="620" caption="Laila Shawa with her work (Credit: Amy Assad)"][/caption] “Me being a Palestinian, I guess, may have something to do with the…

Amy Assad

Art & Conflict - The Case of Syria

[caption id="attachment_55230713" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Live music from the duo Fantazia"][/caption] At a time when diplomacy and journalism seem not to be doing much for Syria,…

Helena Alves

A Dream in Four Movements

[caption id="attachment_55230654" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Marcel Khalife (credit: Qatar Philharmonic)"][/caption] The Qatar Philharmonic is not just another classical music hall,…

Jacqueline Shoen

East Meets Middle East

[caption id="attachment_552302" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Installation view of 'Endless' Cai Guo-Qiang"][/caption] The exhibition opened explosively—literally—over a vast…

Juliet Highet

Women on the Front

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…

Helena Alves

Once Upon a Lost Time in Turkey

[caption id="attachment_55230135" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Ceylan references Sergio Leone the film's title, and more."][/caption] Acclaimed Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan…

Nicholas Blincoe

Restoring Egypt's Splendor

[caption id="attachment_55230091" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="(photo credit: Mourad Heshmat)"][/caption] No other country in the Middle East has an Opera House with a history of almost…

Ati Metwaly