Culture

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Reel Bad Arabs: Hollywood’s Take on 325m People

Reel Bad Arabs: Hollywood’s Take on 325m People

SUSIE OF ARABIA: Here's a game. Try to think of a positive portrayal of Arab life in a recent Hollywood movie? No, didn't think you could. …

Aswany, IPAF, Translators: Daoud Takes Aim

Aswany, IPAF, Translators: Daoud Takes Aim

M. LYNX-QUALEY: In a wide-ranging discussion at the Shubbak festival Hassan Daoud, the Lebanese novelist and journalist, had much to say... …

Arab UK Festival Celebrates Multiculturalism

Arab UK Festival Celebrates Multiculturalism

NADA AKL, CGNEWS: A festival held recently in London brought Arabs and non-Arabs together to reflect upon and celebrate true mutliculturalism. …

Nancy Ajram: Unlikely Icon of Democracy in Morocco

Nancy Ajram: Unlikely Icon of Democracy in Morocco

THE VIEW FROM FEZ: What do Elton John, Haifa Wahbi and Nancy Ajram have in common? …

Egypt’s Artists: ‘Bunch of Headless Chickens’?

Egypt’s Artists: ‘Bunch of Headless Chickens’?

M. LYNX-QUALEY: Egypt's intellectuals are coming under increasing fire from their own ...…

Hip Hop: The Music that Inspired the ‘Arab Spring’

Hip Hop: The Music that Inspired the ‘Arab Spring’

ROSE HACKMAN, CGNEWS: Arabic 'hip-hop' with a political twist has been the soundtrack of the revolutions over the past eight months…

Arts to ‘Flourish’ in a Ghaddafi-Free Libya

Arts to ‘Flourish’ in a Ghaddafi-Free Libya

M. LYNX-QUALEY: 'Censorship is good for literature'? This was a curious refrain from some East European writers. No way, look at Libya today. …

The Silence of the Poets – And That Includes You, Adonis

The Silence of the Poets – And That Includes You, Adonis

M.LYNX-QUALEY: Poets have traditionally held a central role in reflecting the life of Arabs. Is that role, however, being usurped by other, more modern means of communication? …

Bin Laden’s Family Under ‘Islamaphobic’ Microscope

Bin Laden’s Family Under ‘Islamaphobic’ Microscope

ROB L. WAGNER: Most notable in pointless speculation, Islamophobia and conflating pop culture with the life, is Jezebel, the U.S.-based feminist website.…

The Luscious Eyebrow: A Rite of Womanhood?

The Luscious Eyebrow: A Rite of Womanhood?

SHELINA ZAHRA JANMOHAMED: I’d like to say I’m the kind of woman who hasn’t bought into the social pressure to conform. But I have.…

The Parallel Ends of Mubarak and Don Giovanni

The Parallel Ends of Mubarak and Don Giovanni

DANIEL VARISCO: In ways he is a stark iconic shadow of Mubarak. In the end Don Giovanni meets his stone-cold fate: A statue of Ozymandias drags him down into hell…

Why Words Should Not be Allowed To Lose Power

Why Words Should Not be Allowed To Lose Power

ALEXANDER MCNABB: If a Kit-Kat is awesome, what then is the sight of two million Egyptians gathered in brotherhood in Cairo's Tahrir Square? …

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