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10 Years Since The Intifada, 8 Years Ago
Disengagement Youssef Rakha reviews two years of Intifada-inspired culture While in no sense dependent on politics, cultural life tends to wait for political upheaval. For many Arabs this is only as...
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Postmortem
“You are miracle workers, Youssef. You will ring forever throughout history; Egypt, of course, was there at the beginning of human civilisation, and it and its people continue to be so. Momentous...
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A testimony from the siege
The Gaza Spring . At the time I had Islamist tendencies. I was still a schoolboy when the inqilab happened in 2007. (Thus spoke Amin, which is not his name: 22, author, activist, affiliate of Fateh,...
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Virtual Palestinians: From Sabra and Chatila to Arab Spring
For me, the word “Palestinians,” whether in a headline, in the body of an article, on a handout, immediately calls to mind fedayeen in a specific spot—Jordan—and at an easily determined date: October,...
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Imogen Lambert: “They tweeted martyrdom with lattes”
Tower of Babel And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined… Photo:...
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One Flew Over the Mulla’s Ballot
@Sultans_Seal wallows in his lack of democratic mettle Time and again, since 30 June last year, I’ve come up against the commitment to democracy that I’m supposed to have betrayed by appearing to...
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When Suicide Is Permissible
As the IDF begins its withdrawal from the scene of the crime, Hamas is poised to harvest the political yield An Israeli reservist prays July 18 near the Gaza border by Sderot, Israel. Source: CNN On...
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Banipal piece
The bus is more than half empty when I get on… An old woman in black scuttles down the aisle to my right; before I’ve had a chance to see her face, two glossy pamphlets are in my lap. They are manuals...
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Always a Place for the Still Frame: David Degner on Practice, Vision, and the...
David Degner is a Cairo-based freelance photographer represented by Getty Reportage and the co-editor of the Egyptian photo story magazine, Panorama by Mada Masr . . In an age when video journalism is...
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Who the F*** Is Charlie
The mere idea of contributing to the Charlie Hebdo colloquy is a problem. It’s a problem because, whether as a public tragedy or a defense of creative freedom, the incident was blown out of all...
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Banipal piece
The bus is more than half empty when I get on… An old woman in black scuttles down the aisle to my right; before I’ve had a chance to see her face, two glossy pamphlets are in my lap. They are manuals...
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A testimony from the siege
The Gaza Spring . At the time I had Islamist tendencies. I was still a schoolboy when the inqilab happened in 2007. (Thus spoke Amin, which is not his name: 22, author, activist, affiliate of Fateh,...
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Virtual Palestinians: From Sabra and Chatila to Arab Spring
For me, the word “Palestinians,” whether in a headline, in the body of an article, on a handout, immediately calls to mind fedayeen in a specific spot—Jordan—and at an easily determined date: October,...
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Antonio Denti: Notes on War in Times of Peace
Generations I’d rather fight a war tomorrow than think my son might have to do it one day. This sentence, which I know to be true, does not belong to me. It does not emanate from me. It inhabits me...
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Mahmoud Almunirawi: A Psychological Epidemic
By Mahmoud Al Manyarawi I think I must be crazy, or have a short circuit in my brain; it feels like I can’t think in a right way, a way that guarantees any other destination in this life. Taking...
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Two Ways into Bara, by Zahreddine: Speaker of the Baran Tribe
(1) Go to the street, ask for anything, it will be given to you. BARA will have seized the monarchies and set their palaces ablaze. There is a fellow population suffering. To have lived it, later...
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Alienation: A New Chapbook by Mahmoud Almunirawi
Click the image to access the PDF Sometimes I think about praying Maybe in congregation with other Muslims Afterwards, I would call my mum and tell her: People liked my voice when I recited the Qur’an...
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