I made him cry, it was because of me he was crying, only I couldn’t feel anything, actually the more he cried the more I felt better. He wanted me so much to see his tears, to feel them at …
Posted in Literature | 5 CommentsLast May, a professor of mine told me about an upcoming project, a book on refugees in Cairo. I was an undergraduate student and May is the worst month of the year for me. I didn’t ask a lot of …
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Egypt, Human Rights, Literature, Racism, Refugees, Sudan, War, Youth | 5 CommentsPart One -“Water, Please!!” screamed Sheick Buddha feebly. -“Shut up, dirty pig! Not before breakfast.” roared the zionist jailor who was tapping the corridor behind the massive iron door. It was chilling hot and I was all sweating in that …
Posted in Art, Comics, Creative Media, Creativity, Entertainment, Israel, Literature, Palestine | 3 CommentsThe line between fact and fiction, between what is real and what is made up, is quite often blurred. The Swedish National Bibliography recently crossed it, reclassifying a book subtitled “A True Story” from factual to fictional, due to questions …
Posted in Arabs, General, Lebanon, Literature, Media, Politics, Racism, Religion, Women | 1 CommentThe Jewel of Medina is a novel by journalist Sherry Jones, where the age-old controversy over Aisha’s age joins that other controversy so popular these days, the one usually expressed tersely in variations of the phrase “Islam is killing our …
Posted in Censorship, Islam, Literature | 3 CommentsI just returned from a brief visit to New York City and miss her already… So I will commission those of you who are in the Big Apple these days to check out this event, happening tomorrow in midtown Manhattan, …
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Events, General, Iraq, Literature, USA, War | 1 CommentSome of you may have been wondering about these little comics that have been showing up on the sidebar this week, so I will take this opportunity to introduce myself: Hi! I’m Sarah, I live in Brooklyn, NY, and I …
Posted in Literature, Website Updates | 9 CommentsAlthough Arabs generally see the theatre as a recent import from Europe, different forms of performing arts, such as shadow plays, Sufi and Shia miracle plays, and the oral performances of poetry reciters and storytellers, have a long history in …
Posted in Arabs, Art, Censorship, Creativity, Culture, General, Kuwait, Literature, Middle East, Morocco, Satire, Terrorism, USA, War | 2 Comments[ 2007-2008 Thoughts And Wishes in Text ] . The Mind Contemplating thoughts in mind, trying to seek refuge in my own sense of reality.. As days undressed what this year held in store, between the gore and the mortalities.. …
Posted in Arabs, Art, Creativity, Current Events, Entertainment, General, Literature, Middle East, Poetry, Saudi Arabia, Youth | 2 CommentsLibyan bloggers have recently been talking about the controversy over Libyan attorney Wafa Bu’esa’s first novel Hunger Has Other Faces. (Al Jazeera’s report) The novel, written in the first-person for “dramatic effect” as the writer says, tells the story of a …
Posted in Arab Christians, Arabs, Culture, Egypt, Gender, General, Islam, Libya, Literature | 6 Comments