The Seventh of June Fiction By Eli Amir June 1967 (An extract from Yasmine, translated from Hebrew by Yael Lotan, published this month by Halban, London, £9.99) At daybreak on Wednesday, the seventh of June, 1967, As-Sayyed Antoine Salameh, senator … Continue reading
Doughery’s Diary Master of Poetry &.. Calculation Master Adonis The great Syrian poet Adonis is 82 this year and, refreshingly enough, is still as full of zip as ever. He has just visited the British capital for an … Continue reading
Worth Reading A Reader of Modern Arabic Short Stories Edited by Sabry Hafez and Catherine Cobham (Saqi Books, London, 2011) Zakariyya Tamir Students of Arabic literature must be grateful to have this book at their disposal. The selected stories here … Continue reading
Survival of the Fittest Fiction By Michal Peleg When Prince Nadir had once again succumbed to a whim and set his sail in a westerly direction, our ship met with dire storms that sent it adrift further than … Continue reading
Doughery’s Diary Ms. Soueif’s Revolution Ahdaf Soueif with her son Omar at Tahrir Square: Family’s Revolution (Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy) In her recent review of Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif’s new book Cairo: My City, Our Revolution, Louisa Young urges us to read … Continue reading
Muslim and Transsexual Muslim & Transsexual By Hazem Sageigh Editor’s Note: There are few books in Arabic which openly discuss sexuality. Fewer still talk about homosexuality, and none have dared to mention transsexuals. None, that is, until Lebanese journalist … Continue reading
Five poems by Kamal Boustany Acre From Acre they came They left North of Palestine They had left in haste, But not a single word, they never told me Not a word, they said I waited but no, … Continue reading
The Day of Reckoning Review By Samir El-Youssef Krikorian, the protagonist and narrator of One Day in April, is a Lebanese Armenian photojournalist. This simple statement of facts evokes so many images of past and ongoing tragedies that … Continue reading
Shattered Dreams A photo essay by Judah Passow A coffee shop near Damascus Gate in the Muslim quarter of the Old City. Jerusalem, 1993. Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church and his Palestinian aide outside the Church of … Continue reading
Poetry for a time gone mad Review By Rachel S. Harris ‘Indespensible’: the Israeli poet Ronny Someck The second half of the 20th century saw a boom in Hebrew poetry unlike anything since the Golden Age of … Continue reading