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

Lebanon's War and a Mother’s Secret

[caption id="attachment_55227356" align="aligncenter" width="704" caption="Lubna Azabal as Nawal Marwan "][/caption] Addressing the issues of identity, family, memory and trauma, Incendies powerfully…

Noam Schimmel

A New Master

[caption id="attachment_55226838" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Rachid Koraichi (image:Farrante Ferranti)"][/caption] Rachid Koraichi whose work has been described as “writing passion”…

Juliet Highet

Operation Donkey

[caption id="attachment_55226815" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="A donkey at work in Tunisia"][/caption] In the midst of all this election business in Tunisia, though riveting, I…

Jacqueline Shoen

Hollywood's Algeria

Production year: 2010 Country: Rest of the world Runtime: 138 mins Directors: Rachid Bouchareb Cast: Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sabrina Seyvecou, Sami Bouajila Suffering from a tendency to…

Noam Schimmel

Capturing Beirut

[caption id="attachment_55226618" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Solidere, Beirut - 1995. From Traces of War, Fouad Elkoury"][/caption] Although still relatively small as a center for art,…

Maymanah Farhat

Western Preconceptions

[caption id="attachment_55226550" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Muslim women in Cairo wearing the niqab"][/caption] The scene was a relatively unremarkable one. But what happens next is…

Alastair Beach