Al Majalla's Book Watch

A tour of the latest releases from Arabic publishing houses on topics covering fiction, philosophy, science, history, and politics

Khodr Al Agha

Don’t Look Up, An Allegory of Reality

A recent movie, “Don’t look up”, starred by Leonardo DiCaprio, has become the subject of talk. Before discussing the movie, I’ll have to give a brief summary. It starts with two astronomers spotting…

Saif Al Abri

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