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Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt for others. Cesar Chavez
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. …
M. LYNX-QUALEY: In a wide-ranging discussion at the Shubbak festival Hassan Daoud, the Lebanese novelist and journalist, had much to say... …
NADA AKL, CGNEWS: A festival held recently in London brought Arabs and non-Arabs together to reflect upon and celebrate true mutliculturalism. …
THE VIEW FROM FEZ: What do Elton John, Haifa Wahbi and Nancy Ajram have in common? …
M. LYNX-QUALEY: Egypt's intellectuals are coming under increasing fire from their own ...…
ROSE HACKMAN, CGNEWS: Arabic 'hip-hop' with a political twist has been the soundtrack of the revolutions over the past eight months…
M. LYNX-QUALEY: 'Censorship is good for literature'? This was a curious refrain from some East European writers. No way, look at Libya today. …
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? …
ROB L. WAGNER: Most notable in pointless speculation, Islamophobia and conflating pop culture with the life, is Jezebel, the U.S.-based feminist website.…
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.…
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? …