A television cameraman follows Mona Makram-Ebeid into a hall filled with 500 men as loudspeakers boom campaign slogans. The men, many wearing traditional ankle-length gowns, cheer and clap as Makram-Ebeid, in a red jacket, white shirt and tan slacks, takes her place at the head table. “My family has 100 years of political history in … Continued
The Qatar Football Association (QFA) has signed a shirt sponsorship deal with US sportswear giant Nike, it was announced on Sunday. As part of the deal, Nike has been appointed exclusive sponsor and authorised kit supplier to the QFA and will see Qatar’s national team wearing the sportswear’s maker’s logo on their official team shirts. … Continued
A mosque and other structures were demolished by bulldozers in a Palestinian village in the West Bank early Thursday, according to village residents. The Israeli Civil Administration said the demolished structures did not have “the required permits in a fire area, risking the lives of the population.” Residents of the village of Khirbet Yarza said … Continued
Mimi Zaid lingers at the Canal Street side-walk stand, looking indecisive. After twenty minutes of gazing at the multi-colored selection, she points to the purple tinged keffiyeh scarf, looks at the Chinese merchant, and says, “That’s that Palestinian scarf right? Yah, I’ll take that one.” But what Zaid doesn’t know — much like the thousands … Continued
The traditional Thanksgiving meal: turkey, mashed potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes and hummus. Yes, hummus. For Denise Hazime, of Mediterranean cooking website DedeMed.com, her family tries to keep a “traditional” Thanksgiving, but a few Lebanese favorites might wiggle their way next to the turkey. “There will be hummus, tabouli salad, garlic dip, batata harra, which is … Continued
As an Arab-American, Thanksgiving is an especially wonderful holiday. I have even more things to be thankful for than the average non-Arab-American. America is the place where my parents came and found a new life after becoming Palestinian refugees. My father was exiled from Palestine at the age of one month, and my mother was … Continued
Pearson PLC’s publishing unit Penguin Group is set to sign a joint venture with an Egypt-based publisher on Wednesday to bring its Penguin Classics to Arabic-speaking countries, the latest in a string of deals that has seen Penguin expand its classic-literature brand through non-English versions in markets including Brazil, Korea and China. A list of … Continued
Specters tells the story of two women born the same day—one is the author, Radwa Ashour, the other, Shagar, is a loosely autobiographical character in her novel. The narrative alternates fluidly between their childhoods, their work lives (one a professor of literature and the other of history), their married and unmarried lives, and their respective … Continued
As fall progresses, a heavy patter can be heard amid the terraced hills of the West Bank. It is raining olives again in the Levant, as Palestinian villagers embark on the annual harvest that lasts through November. Families spend entire days together on ladders, stroking and tapping olive branches to release their fruit. The bounty … Continued
Minister of Culture Riyad Ismat opened on Saturday the drama show “The Last Fifteen Seconds” within the drama gathering “Space of Multi-Cultures in Canada” on al-Qabanni Theater. The show derives its subject from the terrorist bombings which targeted hotels in the Jordanian capital, Amman, in 2005 and claimed the lives of a number of civilians … Continued
The Middle East’s modest window for dissent, created by a surge in blogging and online journalism over the past decade, looks poised to narrow with a raft of measures across the region. A draft Internet law awaiting parliamentary approval in Syria is one such measure. The government says it would give a needed legal framework … Continued
As I have been traveling around the U.S. discussing my new book Arab Voices, attempting to shatter the myths that many Americans have about Arabs, I frequently get the question, “but do Arabs understand us?” In response I note that because of globalization, many aspects of American culture are known world-wide. Despite this degree of … Continued
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