Jabbour Douaihy and the art of living between two shores

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

Bahaa Iy'ali

“Of Lovers”

On the premises of one of the most enchanting Mamluk Palaces, songs of Star of the Orient Om Kulthoum, intertwined with pearls of wisdom from Al Imam Ibn Hazm Al Andalusi (7 November 994 – 15 August…

Amira el Noshokaty

Red Sea Security, 250 Years Ago

A month before the publication of this book, its British author, Nicholas Stephenson Smith, wrote about it in the American “Foreign Policy” periodical which is published by Graham Holding Company,…

Mohammad Ali Salih