DUBAI: It’s a noteworthy coincidence that the 16-strong longlist of books vying for the 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) have been announced in conjunction with Arabic Language Day. The novels, which were handpicked by an expert panel of five judges chaired by Muhsin al-Musawi, an Iraqi literary critic and professor at Columbia University,…
CHICAGO: Jabbour Douaihy’s “June Rain” depicts the political divisions that left a northern Lebanese village suffering from the aftermath of a tragedy for generations. In the summer of 1957, a gun fight in a church leaves 24 people dead, dividing the town into two halves, the Al-Ramis in the north and the Al-Semaanis in the south.…
AUTHORS: Marisa Abrajano and R. Michael Alvarez Making up 14.2 percent of the American population, Hispanics are now the largest minority group in the US. Clearly, securing the Hispanic vote is more important to political parties than ever before. Yet, despite the current size of the Hispanic population, is there a clear Hispanic politics? Who are…
AUTHORS: Marisa Abrajano and R. Michael Alvarez Making up 14.2 percent of the American population, Hispanics are now the largest minority group in the US. Clearly, securing the Hispanic vote is more important to political parties than ever before. Yet, despite the current size of the Hispanic population, is there a clear Hispanic politics? Who are…
DUBAI: The UAE’s film and entertainment company Image Nation Abu Dhabi has named Mansour Ahmed, Mildred Garcerant and Amer Al-Mahri as the 2019 winners of Arab Film Studio Awards, part of its flagship training program for aspiring filmmakers. Now in its eighth year, Arab Film Studio offers programs in narrative, documentary, scriptwriting, storytelling and corporate…
The Political Poetess challenges familiar accounts of the figure of the 19th-century Poetess, offering new readings of Poetess performance and criticism. In performing the Poetry of Woman, the mythic Poetess has long staked her claims as a creature of “separate spheres”— one exempt from emerging readings of nineteenth-century women’s political poetics. Turning such assumptions on…
The Political Poetess challenges familiar accounts of the figure of the 19th-century Poetess, offering new readings of Poetess performance and criticism. In performing the Poetry of Woman, the mythic Poetess has long staked her claims as a creature of “separate spheres”— one exempt from emerging readings of nineteenth-century women’s political poetics. Turning such assumptions on…
What do we mean when we say that a novel’s conclusion “feels right”? How did feeling, form, and the sense of right and wrong get mixed up, during the 19th century, in the experience of reading a novel? Good Form argues that Victorian readers associated the feeling of narrative form — of being pulled forward…
RIYADH: AMC Cinemas held an event at their new Panorama Mall location in Riyadh on Sunday evening to celebrate their second cinema opening in the Kingdom. The ten-screen, 750-seat theater has started selling tickets to the public, with screenings of films to begin tomorrow. Guests were treated to a sneak peek at the cinema’s facilities,…
Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer captures not just a beloved woman’s life in full, but a crucial span of American history. Blake Bailey said in a review for The New York Times: “The disappointments of romance — ‘the great subject’of Adams’s life and work, as Carol Sklenicka writes in her new biography, Alice Adams:…
DUBAI: Shortly after Priyanka Chopra launched her latest digital venture, an original YouTube show entitled “If I Could Tell You Just One Thing,” that features a series of high-profile guests, the Bollywood star has just revealed that she and her husband Nick Jonas will be executive producing a new web series on Amazon Prime. The…
DUBAI: US-Palestinian producer DJ Khaled is among the world’s top-earning musicians of 2019, according to the annual Forbes list of the year’s 40 highest-paid musical artists. The “I’m the One” hitmaker earned $40 million this year, landing the 29th spot, alongside The Weeknd and Marshmello who he is tied with. The US-based DJ and producer,…
DUBAI: US-Palestinian producer DJ Khaled is among the world’s top-earning musicians of 2019, according to the annual Forbes list of the year’s 40 highest-paid musical artists. The “I’m the One” hitmaker earned $40 million this year, landing the 29th spot, alongside The Weeknd and Marshmello who he is tied with. The US-based DJ and producer,…
RABAT: Gnawa culture, a centuries-old Moroccan practice rooted in music, African rituals and Sufi traditions, was on Thursday added to UNESCO’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Gnawa refers to a “set of musical productions, fraternal practices and therapeutic rituals where the secular mixes with the sacred,” according to the nomination submitted by Morocco. Often…
CAIRO: There’s a certain pleasure in walking into a gallery space packed with caricature works, especially if, growing up as a child in Cairo, you were in the habit of checking the daily papers to indulge in the humorous illustrations of the day. The opening of the group exhibition “Caricature” at Ubuntu Art Gallery in…
CAIRO: There’s a certain pleasure in walking into a gallery space packed with caricature works, especially if, growing up as a child in Cairo, you were in the habit of checking the daily papers to indulge in the humorous illustrations of the day. The opening of the group exhibition “Caricature” at Ubuntu Art Gallery in…
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DUBAI: Cairo-born entrepreneur Ayman Sabae had long wanted to tackle the inadequacies of the Egyptian health care system. But it took the historic events of the Arab Spring to spark his eureka moment. “It was a very vivid time in my life. For over two weeks, the protesters were put in a position where they had…
DUBAI: “Moors & Saints” is the brainchild of the Moroccan visual artist and designer Chama Mechtaly. This fine jewelry line not only draws inspiration from sacred architecture, and its message is more than skin-deep, in light of the current political climate surrounding migration. “For the last few years, we have been witnessing the rise of…
Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother— his teammate, a…
