'The Bread of the French': a poetic indictment of French racism

Xavier Le Clerc's novel doesn't merely unmask France's ugly colonial past; it warns of the present's ability to reproduce it

Samir Qasimi

Indyk on Kissinger

Recently Martin Indyk, a strong supporter of Israel, former presidential envoy to Israel and twice US ambassador in Israel, wrote a book about Henry Kissinger, another strong supporter of Israel,…

Mohammad Ali Salih

Majalla’s Year in Review

The year 2021 has been full of political events ranging between Arab reconciliation, the war on Gaza, the delay of the long-awaited Libyan elections, the power outages and economic crisis in Lebanon,…

Majalla

“Tablet El Sitt”

The stage curtain opens. A group of young women wearing dresses in the same color sit on chairs and hold percussion instruments ready to perform. No singer is on the stage except them. A minute later…

Salwa Samir

Random Thoughts

If we are familiar with the history of the societies of the Arabic-speaking Middle East region... If we know that the collective mind of its peoples still can’t consider religion to be a personal…

Tarek Heggy

My Cultural Project

I have written, published, lectured and spoken a lot since publishing my first book 43 years ago. I have so far published 35 books, dozens of articles, lectures, seminars and have been interviewed on…

Tarek Heggy