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

Midsummer Madness at the Home Office

[caption id="attachment_55254449" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Your Love Is Fire at Summerhall, Edinburgh part of the Arab Arts Focus in this year’s festival.[/caption] by Bryn Haworth* …

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The Nuclear Option

[caption id="attachment_55254423" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Large solar panels are seen in a solar power plant in Hami, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on May 8, 2013. …

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Princess Diana

[caption id="attachment_55254375" align="aligncenter" width="1488"]Princess Of Wales In Hong Kong Wearing A Pearl And Diamond Tiara Which Was A Wedding Gift From The Queen.(Photo by Tim Graham/Getty…

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Globalization of Falafel

The Kerfuffle Over Food and Cultural Identity by Ghada Fathi The relationship between food and identity is inextricable. History books are full of “sha’abi foods” for almost all nations, and…

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Making Syria Safe for Refugees

[caption id="attachment_55254073" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Syrian refugees boys push a wheelbarrow along a road in the Zaatari refugee camp, a seven-square-kilometre (2.8-square-mile) camp…

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Hezbollah’s Refugee Quandary

[caption id="attachment_55254014" align="aligncenter" width="900"] MAJDAL ANJAR, LEBANON - NOVEMBER 12: A displaced Syrian child is viewedin a makeshift camp for Syrian refugees only miles from the…

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Prisons and Radicalisation

by Yasmine El-Geressi Fears that Westminster terroristKhalid Masood - the 52-year-old Muslim convert who killedfive people and injured 50 in an attack on London's Westminster Bridge- was…

Yasmine El Geressi