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

Animating Egypt

Egypt was the first in the Arab world and Africa to establish an animation production. In 1934, the pioneering brothers Solomon, David and Frankel Herschel (recent immigrants from Soviet Belarus) who…

Yasmine El Geressi

Of Cannibals (Part Two)

I’ve always had a lot of time for sceptics. In some cases, you had to have a lot of time. There was the one who landed up in a ditch and refused to come out till someone could prove he was actually…

Bryn Haworth

Of Cannibals (Part One)

The ginger-haired Jesus, by Paul Gauguin. As a painter, especially in his early years, Gauguin could be remarkably gauche. Given a different chain of…

Bryn Haworth

Ever-Further Union

The Capital.Robert Menasse. Translated byJamie Bulloch.. Liveright, 2019. 416pp.TheEuropean Unionmay well be the most ambitious and successful experiment in voluntary international…

Andrew Moravcsik