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

The Twitter Generation

[caption id="attachment_55226477" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="A tweeter uses the hashtag #jan25 in the midst of the Egyptian uprising"][/caption] They are easy to spot in Deborah…

Caryle Murphy

Art After Tahrir

[caption id="attachment_55226460" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Work by Hossam Hassan. Exhibition: To Egypt with Love"][/caption] The youthful energy that brought about the revolution and…

Ati Metwaly

Road to Recovery

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Alastair Beach

A Religious Spring

[caption id="attachment_55226175" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Professor Malika Zeghal of Harvard University"][/caption] Malika Zeghal is the Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Professor in…

Noam Schimmel

Reconciling with Religion

[caption id="attachment_55226161" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Abdel Mon’im Abdul Fotouh"][/caption] There has been noted tension in relations between Abdul Fotouh and his Brotherhood…

Safaa Azab

A Loyal Liability

[escenic_image id="55220237"]“Without Iran, Islam would be lost.” Iranian Chief of Staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei spoke these words in August of this year, inciting a gush of criticism from Shi’ite…

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