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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. Albert Camus
ALI GHARIB, MONDOWEISS: A lesson in how to reject a prize yet 'engage in dialogue' with a regime of which you are critical. …
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.…
M.LYNX QUALEY: “We had a psychological barrier – what I call ‘the policeman inside us’. That policeman was killed” on Tahrir Square."…
CROSSROADS ARABIA: There would be tens of thousands of young men and women with something to do with their time other than to shop or loiter around shopping malls...…
M. LYNX-QUALEY: Hailed as a symbol of 'New Egypt' the Alexandria Library has a way to go before it wins the hearts of Egyptians. It could start with the young.…
M.LYNX-QUALEY: According to Syrian poet, Adonis, the Arab world is affected by a great 'apathy' - surely a criticism that can be brought no longer...…
M. LYNX-QUALEY: Egypt's three leading contemporary novelists reflect on the origins, significance and consequences of the recent bomb attack on a Coptic church in Alexandria. …
M. LYNX QUALEY: No Arabic writers can really write about religion, for instance. People can write about politics, in some countries, they can write about sex, but the fundamental questions...…
TABSIR: Fanatically brave, chillingly ruthless, he was fastidious, repressed, allergic to physical contact, addicted to roasting baths. He was fabulously weird.…