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di Elie Chalala
Una delle caratteristiche principali di Al Jadid(1) è quella di promuovere “il nuovo,” come da significato dello stesso termine Al Jadid in Arabo. Questo correttamente suggerisce che Al Jadid ha scelto di distanziarsi dalla tradizione, se tradizione significa salvaguardia indiscriminata del passato...
Al Jadid - Arab culture and arts
by Simone Stevens
Nazik al-Malaika, one of Iraq’s most famous poets, died June 20, 2007, at the age of 83. Al-Malaika was best known for her role as a pioneer of the free verse movement, making a ....
by Hilary Hesse
One of the world’s more ghastly cultural traditions, honor killing is practiced in many parts of the Middle East and surrounding areas. In its most common incarnation, a woman is murdered by a male relative upon suspicion of having committed a sexual indiscretion with a man to whom she is not married.
by Rebecca Joubin
You were born and raised in Karbala, a city revered by Shiite Muslims. Can you recall the first moment theater touched your life as a child?
The religious rituals of Ashura, the tenth day of Muharram, took on a special significance in Karbala and inspired my childhood.
by Etel Adnan
I just read Miriam Cooke’s “Dissident Syria” and feel that this work has to be brought to the attention of specialists of Arab and Middle Eastern studies, students of literature and the general public.
by Mohammed Ali Atassi
Sexual harassment of women in Egypt is one of many social problems that politicians and the media have tended to treat as an instance of individual, abnormal behavior.
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Sacramenti che vanno: La moglie del Mel Gibson ha chiesto il divorzio. Tra le cause di incompatibilità col marito...
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Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. ***
Examine what is said, not him who speaks. ***
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ***
Make your bargain before beginning to plow. *** He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. Arab proverbs
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