Added on 03/01/2012
Rob L. Wagner
Al Watan , Amal Zahid , Amira Kashgari , Facebook , Fiction , Islam , Jeddah , King Abdullah , Kul Al Watan , Marriott Hotel , Ministry of Interior , Novelist , Online media , princess , Print media , Riyadh , Saleh Al-Shehi , Saudi Arabia , Saudi government , Saudi women , Twitter , Women's Rights
ROB L. WAGNER: An online battle between conservatives and reformers following the Saudi Intellectual Forum illuminates their diverging opinions…
Added on 23/11/2011
M.-Lynx-Qualey
Art , Cairo , Egypt , Khaled Mattawa , Laila Soliman , Libya , Literature , Novelist , Paris , Poet , Samar Yazbek , Syria , Tahrir Square , The Guardian
M.LYNX-QUALEY: Dina Adel asserts that all this means art in Egypt (and perhaps beyond) is undergoing a renaissance, another Nahda…
Added on 02/11/2011
M.-Lynx-Qualey
Christmas , Literature , Novelist , Poet , Samuel Shimon , UAE , United States , Women
M. LYNX-QUALEY: A collection of writing from Emirati authors, showcased in the journal ‘Banipal’, demonstrates the wide variety of female voices in the UAE…
Added on 27/10/2011
Mondoweiss
California , Homs , Novelist , Paul Jobs , Steve Jobs , Syria
PHILIP WEISS, MONDOWEISS: One of the striking revelations in the newly published biography of Steve Jobs is that he actually met his father briefly but had no further contact with him. Why?
Added on 19/09/2011
M.-Lynx-Qualey
Cell phones , Democracy , Egypt , Egyptian government , Facebook , Hisham Matar , International Peace Institute , Jennifer Sears , Libya , London , New York city , Novelist , Palestinian Territories , southern Yemen , Tunisia , United Kingdom , United Nations , Yemen
JENNIFER SEARS, ARABLIT: Two leading novelists attending an event in New York reflect on the role of intellectuals on this year’s events.
Added on 24/07/2011
M.-Lynx-Qualey
Al Masry Al Youm , Crown Prince , Egypt , Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces , Humphrey Davies , Literature , Novelist , Poet , Radwa Ashour , Ramallah , Supreme Council of the Armed Forces
M. LYNX-QUALEY: Son of an acclaimed literary family, Tamim al-Barghouti’s ‘weird accent and non-Egyptian features’ seem to be a problem for some in Egypt…
Added on 08/06/2011
Steve Royston
Abdullah II , Albert Einstein , Anwar Sadat , Arab League , Artist , Bahrain , Barack Obama , Benjamin Netanyahu , CNN , Congress , Crown Prince , Democracy , Desmond Tutu , Egypt , Europe , Faisal , Gulf Cooperation Council , Hussain , Jordan , Kuwait , Middle East , Middle East Opinions of America , Novelist , Ohio , Oil wealth , President , Prime Minister , Saudi Arabia , U.S. Congress , United States , Wael Ghonim , Washington
STEVE ROYSTON: There are many reasons why the ‘Arab Voice’ is so weak in the United States. But that doesn’t give leaders and opinion formers an excuse.
Added on 21/04/2011
M.-Lynx-Qualey
Al Ahram Weekly , Alexandria , Arabian Gulf , AUC Press , Bahaa Taher , Bahrain , Beirut , Cairo , Catherine Cobham , Christina Phillips , Columbia University , Denys Johnson-Davies , Editor-in-Chief , Edward Said , Egypt , Elias Khoury , Emile Habibi , Gamal al-Ghitani , Ghassan Kanafani , Google+ , Haifa , Hanan al-Shaykh , Hassan Nasrallah , Humphrey Davies , Ibrahim Abdel Meguid , Ibrahim al-Koni , Ibrahim Aslan , Ibrahim Jabra , Indiana University , Iraq , Islah party , Italy , Khairy Shalaby , Kuwait , Literature , Minister of Information , Morocco , Mourid Barghouti , Naguib Mahfouz , Novelist , Paris , Peter Theroux , Qatar , Radwa Ashour , Rashad Abu Shawar , Salwa Bakr , Samia Mehrez , Shakir Mustafa , Syracuse University , Syria , Tawfiq al-Hakim , United Kingdom , William Hutchins , Yemen Times , Yusuf Idris
M. LYNX-QUALEY: The Arab Writers Union has listed the Top 100 Arabic novels. Puzzling, annoying, lists such as this are nevertheless fun.
Added on 14/04/2011
Jonathan Cook
Amos Oz , Association of Civil Rights in Israel , Columbia University , Gaza , Human rights , Ian McEwan , Israel , Israeli government , Jerusalem , Jimmy Carter , Kofi Annan , Middle East , Novelist , Oslo , Palestine , Prime Minister , Rabin , Reuters , Simon Sebag Montefiore , Supreme Court , The National , Tony Blair , United Arab Emirates , United States , West Bank , White House , Yasser Arafat
JONATHAN COOK: “There is clearly a policy to push Palestinians out of Jerusalem to reduce what is called here the Palestinian demographic threat…”
Added on 09/04/2011
Juan Cole
Al-Hayat , America , Amman , Beirut , Cairo , Cairo University , China , Declaration of Independence , Egypt , France , India , Islamabad , John Stuart Mill , Jordan , Martin Luther King Jr. , Middle East , Novelist , Pakistan , PayPal , Politics , Thomas Jefferson , Tunisia , United Kingdom , United States , US State Department , Washington
JUAN COLE: I am hopeful that the book will find an eager reception in Egypt, Tunisia and other countries yearning for democracy in the Arab world.
Added on 02/04/2011
M.-Lynx-Qualey
Al Ahram Weekly , Alaa al-Aswany , Daily News Egypt , Democracy , Egypt , Egyptian Book Organization , Ibrahim al-Koni , Ibrahim Farghali , Latin America , Libya , Literature , Mubarak , Novelist , The National , The Washington Post
M. LYNX-QUALEY: With many of the ‘red lines’ now swept away novelists throughout the Arab world are free to touch on subjects hitherto out of bounds.
Added on 28/02/2011
M.-Lynx-Qualey
Al Ahram Weekly , Al Masry Al Youm , Cairo University , Censorship , Democracy , Egypt , Khaled al-Berry , London , Novelist
M. LYNX-QUALEY: Victory was met with hopes that red lines had been blown away and a new era of artistic freedoms had begun. But the red lines may take a bit more rolling.
Added on 20/02/2011
M.-Lynx-Qualey
Boyd Tonkin , Censorship , Egypt , Jordan , Khaled al-Berry , Morocco , Novelist , policeman , Saudi Arabia , Tahrir , Tahrir Square , The Guardian , United Kingdom , Yemen
M.LYNX QUALEY: “We had a psychological barrier – what I call ‘the policeman inside us’. That policeman was killed” on Tahrir Square.”
