From Hamdy el-Gazzar’s latest work, The Book of the Four Lines, 10 quatrains on Love.
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From Hamdy el-Gazzar’s latest work, The Book of the Four Lines, 10 quatrains on Love.
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In Rules for Translators, Sampsonia Way presents five selections from a series by Arabic Literature featuring celebrated and award-winning literary translators about their rules for translation. In our fifth installment, questions to translators from the Middle East Studies scholar Elliott Colla.
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Activists in Saudi Arabia face a repressive and intolerant government as they advocate popular political participation, judicial reform, and an end to discrimination against women and minorities.
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Today’s cartoon from Ramzy Taweel (Palestine) takes a look at the recent visit to Egypt by Russia’s defense and foreign ministers, which is seen as an attempt by both countries to assert themselves amid a Middle East power vacuum.
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Watch a short film on the acclaimed “people’s poet,” Ahmed Fouad Negm, recipient of the 2013 Prince Claus Award. A master poet, fearless social and political critic, Negm died on December 3, a few days before the award ceremony.
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Does a new viral YouTube video signal big changes in Iran? Entitled “New Voyager,” the music video, which has strong similarities with the Obama campaign’s “Yes We Can” video, is largely based on president Hassan Rouhani speeches, shows women singing, and portrays Iran’s diverse society.
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