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Essays & Features

The Issue of "Dialogue" in Islamic Culture, by Elie Chalala

A New Life for Arab Rationalism, by Elie Chalala

Disrepair and Neglect Mar Kahlil Gibran Memorial, by Stan Shabaz

Bashir al-Daouk (1931-2007)
In Memoriam: Farewell to Publisher Hero, by Elie Chalala

In Memoriam: Suheil Idriss (1925-2008)
Founder of Al Adab ‘moved the waters’ of Arab Literature,
by Mahmoud Saeed

The Politics of Getting Published: The Continuing Struggle of Arab-American Writers, by Andrea Shalal-Esa


Founder of Al Adab 'moved the waters' of Arab Literature, by Mahmoud Saeed

The Politics of Getting Published: The Continuing Struggle of Arab-American Writers, by Andrea Shalal-Esa

The Season of Tayeb Salih--Crossing the Boundaries, by Lynne Rogers

Monkith Saaid: Fingertips Grasping Place, by Shawqi Abd al-Amir

Lebanese Immigrants in Australia: Growing Up in a Culture of Taxi Driving, by Christine Eid

Kennedy Center Festival Underscores Growing Interest in Arab Literature, by Andrea Shalal-Esa

Nazik al-Malaika (1923-2007) Iraqi Woman’s Journey Changes Map of Arabic Poetry, by Simone Stevens

Taking on Sexual Harassment, a Social Phenomenon in Egypt, by Mohammed Ali Atassi

Early Advocate of Separation Between Religion and State, Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, from the Mysteries of His Life to the Clarity of His Ideas, by Ibrahim al-Ariss

Award-winning 'Bin Baraka Alley' Emerges from Decades of Censorship, by Dunya Mikhail

Mahmoud Darwish and the Loss of Palestine, by Issa Boullata

The Paris and Turin Book Fairs To Boycott or Not to Boycott: Subjecting Culture to Politics, by Elie Chalala

Multiple Factors Spur Resignations from Al Jazeera English, by Elie Chalala

Remembering Abou Ali Yassin: A Life of Struggle, by Mahmoud Saeed

Remembering Hani al-Rahib: Death Ends Novelist's Portrayal of Arab World in Crisis, by Mahmoud Saeed

Iraqi Intellectuals: Victims of Repression and Sanctions, by Mahmoud Saeed

Youssef al-Sayigh: Poet of Sorrows, Master of Contradictions, by Elie Chalala

Homage to Early Lebanese Immigrants, by Euegene Paul Nassar

Disrepair and Neglect Mar Gibran Memorial, by Stan Shabaz.

Burning Questions – Review Debunks Honor-Crime Memoir, By Therese Taylor.

Father of Neo-Realism in Egyptian Cinema Passes Away By Al Jadid Staff Writers

Al Jadid Magazine Begins Second Decade: Quality Coverage and Dynamic Change

AAUG and ADS Conventions Beirut Hosts Two Arab-American Events By Samar Barakat

‘Degenerate’ Pop: Threat to Arab Music Renaissance or Mere Sign of the Times? by Nancy Linthicum

Mahmoud Darwish Indicts Modern Arab Poets by Nancy Linthicum

Failed Ideology Stands in as Alibi, by Elie Chalala

Said’s Memoir Takes Its Place Amid Attempts to Discredit Compiled and edited by Al Jadid staff

Said’s Books Banned in Palestine Compiled and edited by Al Jadid staff

". . . Bemoan a Wound" Kuwaiti Writers Convicted by Al Jadid Staff

Lebanon Redeems a Tradition of Freedom Court Exonerates Khalife of All Charge by Al Jadid Staff

Alfred Basbous (1924-2006): Legacy of Three Brothers Turns Lebanese Village of Rachana into a Global Center of Sculpture, by Nancy Linthicum

George Hawi (1938-2005): A Man for All Seasons by Iskandar Mansour Egyptian Playwright Alfred Farag Dies at Age 76: Prison, Exile and Triumph through Theater by Dina Amin.

TV Documentary Series on Nezar Kabbani: Exercise in Commercialization by Sanitization, by Mohammad Ali Atassi

Circumnavigating Islam by Judith Gabriel

Drawing Out Displacement by Catherine Hamel

Thirteen Hours of Interrogation by Mohammed Ali Atassi

Remembering Salma al-Haffar Kuzbari by Joseph Mouallem

Playing Politics with Art by Al Jadid Staff

Controversial Image of Lebanon War Wins Photo Prize, by Mohammed Ali Atassi.

Mideast Political Paradoxes Put to Words and Music--Bahraini Democracy Threatened by Majnun Laila’s Musical, by Kelly O’Brien.

Arabs Making Their Mark in Latin America: Generations of Immigrants in Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico, by Habeeb Salloum.

Schehadeh and Gibran: An Unusual Encounter, by Etel Adnan.

A Father to the Point of Tears by Faraj Beirqadar

Naguib Mahfouz the Pyramid by Alawiyya Sobh

Naguib Mahfouz: Characters Develop Alongside their Creator by Mohammed Dakroub

Ghada Samman: A Writer of Many Layers by Pauline Homsi Vinson

‘War Photographer’—Chasing Peace through Horrors by Judith Gabriel

Passion for Modernizing and Popularizing Instrumental Arab Music by Sami Asmar

Gulf Capital and Arab Satellite Television by Mohammad Ali Atassi

Sensationalized Spin, Radical Rhetoric Pass for News and Debate by Mohammad Ali Atassi

The Arab Novel: Visions of Social Reality by Andrea Shalal-Esa

Children of Our Alley: Mahfouz Award Fuels Schism in Egyptian Literary Field by Samia Mehrez

Issam Mahfouz (1939-2006): Recalling Poet, Playwright, Critic as the Attractive Modernist
by Mohammad Dakroub


Mahfouz Surveys 'Fertile Soil' of Future: Optimism Survives Literary, Bodily Blow

Edwar al-Kharrat and the Modernist Revolution in the Egyptian Novel by Amal Amireh

Entering its 11th Year: Al Jadid Magazine Begins Second Decade Quality – Coverage, and Dynamic Change. by Elie Chalala

Assia Djebar Elected to French Academy: Immortal Sycophant or Courageous Humanist? by Lynne Rogers

Invasion of the Sun-Painters by Judith Gabriel

The Other Prison by Mohammad Ali Atassi.

Memoir of Arab-American Life In The 1930s by Fred M. Saidy

Louis Awad's Secular Tradition; Samir Nakash's Love of Arab Culture; Rethinking Edward Said's ‘Orientalism'; Arab Satellite TV Funding – By Beige Luciano-Adams

A Year After Sunset: Remembering Amina Rizk by Miranda Bechara

War, Peace and Garbage by Hanan Chebib

A Letter from Beirut: Disoriented Lebanon by Carole Corm.

The Knight who Came Home to be Slain by Pierre Abisaab.

Poets Charge Fadwa Tuqan Slighted in Arab-French Poetry Festival by Sara Hahn.

Imagining Lebanon Through Rahbani Musicals By Elise Salem

Camera Obscura:Documentary Brings Forbidden Images to American Viewers by Judith Gabriel

Al Jazeera Remains in the Hot Seat by Judith Gabriel

Andrée Chedid's "WOUNDED BEIRUT " by Mona Takieddine Amyuni

A Century After Qasim Amin: Fictive Kinship and Historical Uses of
" Tahrir al-Mara '" by Malek Abisaab and Rula Jurdi Abisaab

Vision: Arab-American Literary Criticism by Steven Salaita

Fadwa Tuqan: An Arab Electra by Abbas Beydoun

The Victim Of Beauty: Reviving the Literary Legacy of Mai Ziadeh by Ghada Samman

In Al Nakba’s 50th Anniversary, Adonis Denounces Arab Chauvinistic Voices by Elie Chalala

Fateh Al-Moudarres, Syrian Artist Who Fought for Justice with Brush, Pen by Abd al-Rahman Munif

Deadly Identities by Amin Maalouf

'The Secret Of Being A Woman'On Etel Adnan's Quest by Mona Takieddine

Edward Said is Our Conscience and Ambassador to the Human Consciousness by Mahmoud Darwish

A Legacy of Change: Edward Said's Impacton U.S. Campus, Discourse, and Activism by Elie Chalala

Beirut Hosts a Conference on Edward Said by Nezar Andary

Said Speaks Out Before and After 9-11: Muffling the Arab Voice by Judith Gabriel

Novelist Abd al-Rahman Munif Mourned

Detroit - Arab Capital of North America by Habeeb Salloum

Remembering Latifa al-Zayyat by Amal Amireh

Salute to Shirin Ebadi by Adonis

Adonis' Warning to Intellectuals: Western & Arab by Elie Chalala

Iraqi Violence Demystified by Shakir Luabi

A Legacy of Ruins: Iraqi Letters and Intellectuals Under Saddam's Regime by Mahmoud Saeed

Arab-American Writers Identify with Communities of Color by Andrea Shalal-Esa

Torture, Imprisonment, and Political Assassination in the Arab Novel by Sabry Hafez

Who Is Being Veiled? by Etel Adnan

An Odyssey of Words: Evolution of the Arabic Language in the 20th Century by Georgine Ayoub

Letter from Beirut : Lebanon Loses What War Did Not Destroy by Etel Adnan

Adonis Indicts Arabic Poetry, Past and Present by Elie Chalala

Chronicles of Dark Humor: Palestinian Filmmaker Snubbed by Oscar, by Judith Gabriel

Science in the Arab World: Between Ideals and Reality, by Samir Mattar

The Autumn of Literature: The Dictator as Novelist by Elias Khoury

The Hyphenated Author: Emerging Genre of 'Arab-American Literature'
Poses Questions of Definition, Ethnicity and Art by Lisa Suhair Majaj

Profile of an Arab Daughter by Elmaz Abinader

My Life, Myself, and the World by Sahar Khalifeh

Emergence of a Genre: Reviewing Arab American Writers by Judith Gabriel

Letter From Cairo US Mideast Policy Bewilders Egyptian Intellectuals by Pamela Nice

Um Kulthum by Mai Ghoussoub

Lebanon's Summer Festivals by Etel Adnan

A Personal Vision of Poetry by Amal al-Jubburi

Many Causes Underlie Assassinations of Algerian Journalists and Intellectuals by Elie Chalala

Ghali Shukri: Journalist, Author, Critic, Leaves Legacy of Cultural Influence by Elie Chalala

Arab Intellectuals Rally to Defend Creative Freedom by Elie Chalala

Defining the Translator by Samuel Hazo

Voices Against the Darkness: In Defense of Marcel Khalife A Special Section

Al Jadid on Adonis -- A Poet Responds Some Further Remarks on Arabic Poetry by Etel Adnan

We Turn the Page from City to City by Marcel Khalifé

Egypt, Other Mideast Countries
See Earliest Stage of AIDS Epidemic by Cesar Chelala

Generations of Catastrophe: The Palestinian Problem at Half a Century by Elie Chalala

Al Nakba Dark Ruins of the Tribal Poets Tragedy Expressed via New Literary
Forms Infuses Half Century of Palestinian Poetry by Judith Gabriel

Arab Journals Provide Rich But Neglected Sources for Study of Arab World by Nezar Andary

An Author Responds The "Crime" of Disturbing Calm Waters with a Pen By Laila al-Othman

Nizar Kabbani's Erotics and Politics Embrace in Poetic World of Reckless Women and Sultan's Daughters by Mohja Kahf

Publishing in the West: Problems and Prospects for Arab Women Writers by Amal Amireh

Arab Cultural Notebooks - Arabic-Language Journals


". . . Bemoan a Wound" Kuwaiti Writers Convicted by Al Jadid Staff

Lebanon Redeems a Tradition of Freedom Court Exhonerates Khalife of All Charge by Al Jadid Staff

Mohammed Shukri: A Close Look : Noted author Mohammed Shukri Dies at 68

Mohammed Shukri's 'The White Sparrow' and Its Message by Muhy Din Lazikani

Mohammed Shukri's 'The Plain Bread' is Target of Hostile Press, Academic Furor in Egypt by Judith Gabriel


 

 

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