Lebanon’s culture minister recently banned the summer blockbuster "Barbie" from cinemas, but the news has left many scratching their heads over the…

In the real world, people suffer hardships, injustice, inequality, and an ever-looming threat of annihilation by an atomic bomb.In Barbieland, “the…

The Arab collective memory has long associated Youssef Chahine with serious, conservative, intellectual, and political cinematography.Though true to…

Those who flocked yesterday to the cinema to watch Oppenheimer expected Christopher Nolan’s epic depiction of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear…

An unprecedented wave of dissent flooded social media platforms in the Arab world recently, including condemnation and "panic" over what some…

Sacred texts have played a significant role in the emergence and evolution of the translation field, paving the way for its establishment as a…

London: Syrian runner Dima Al-Aktaa always has a smile on her face, even when talking about the most horrific event in her life — the loss of her…

There is an anecdote in the Arabic tradition about Abu Nuwas, an 8th century Arab poet of who studied poetry under Khalaf al-Ahmar.Early in his…

Among the reasons that encouraged French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to write two lectures titled “On Television”, which he later included in his…

“There are cemeteries that are lonely, graves full of bones that do not make a sound, the heart moving through a tunnel, in it darkness,…