Five years after his death, Douaihy's novels reveal how one of Lebanon's greatest writers lived between two languages, two worlds, and transformed the news of the day into stories that outlasted it
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…
In February 2021, the International Union of Muslim Scholars’ (IUMS) Da’wah (calling for Islam) Committee issued a press statement saying it had organized the first so-called international conference…
Women are responsible for their inhumane situation in the societies of our Arabic-speaking region. This is one of the recurring “unscholarly” statements.
Historical, anthropological and…
Eric Blair, who is known by his pen name George Orwell, was eerily accurate in the predictions he made in his novel, dubbed “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” which was published in 1949. He gave free rein to…
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…
On November 25, Egypt witnessed a grand ceremony on the occasion of the inauguration of the historic Rams Road in Luxor, with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisiin attendance. The city contains…
A respected Black professor recently published a book criticizing extreme Black opinions and activities by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, and by other Black organizations and groups. As…
Nagwa Fouad, an Egyptian belly dancer and actress, was born on January 17, 1939. She was born as Awatef Mohamed Agami in Alexandria to a middle-class Egyptian family with an Egyptian father and…
Alexander Lukashenko, self-proclaimed as “Europe’s last dictator,” continues his ongoing feud with the European Union. Lukashenko has orchestrated an unprecedented influx of refugees at its borders…
Last week, The Arab American National Museum (AANM), in Dearborn, Michigan, the home of the largest Arabic and Islamic communities in the US, hosted the annual Arab Film Festival, as part of other…
A US envoy wants the institutions of western Libya to accommodate the son of an eastern warlord as Libyan president. Is this another doomed effort to unite the feuding factions, or could it work?
As the FIFA World Cup 2026 shows, identity, belonging, and tension combine to make football fandom unlike any other sport. So, what is going on in fans' brains?
Beijing's duty-free access for African exports promises mutual economic gains, but more importantly, it deepens its strategic influence across the continent