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01.05.2009
Al Jadid’s Purpose—‘The New’

by Elie Chalala
Foreword by Rina Brundu

One salient feature of Al Jadid lies in focusing on “the new,” as the name Al Jadid means in Arabic. This correctly suggest that Al Jadid has distanced itself from tradition, if tradition means indiscriminate safeguarding of the past. We in Al Jadid cannot be a voice of the past because the past could mean oppression of minorities, of the poor, of intellectuals, just to name a few. We are a forward-looking publication rather than an apologetic one, celebrating the critical and the humane in Arab and Arab-American culture.

01.05.2009
Le ragioni di Al Jadid - "Il Nuovo"

di Elie Chalala
Prefazione di Rina Brundu

Una delle caratteristiche principali di Al Jadid  sta nel 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. Noi di Al Jadid non possiamo essere una voce del passato perché il passato potrebbe voler dire oppressione delle minoranze, dei poveri, degli intellettuali, ma non solo. Noi siamo una rivista che guarda al futuro, non apologetica, quanto piuttosto una rivista che celebra gli aspetti critici e umani della cultura Araba e Arabo-Americana.

01.05.2009
Nazik al-Malaika (1923-2007)
Iraqi Woman’s  Journey  Changes Map of  Arabic Poetry

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 sharp departure from the classical rhyme form that had dominated Arabic poetry for centuries.

01.05.2009
Death Before Dishonor

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. Her murder is meant to correct the misdeed and restore the family’s “honor.”

01.05.2009
Jawad al-Assadi: Director Returns to Iraq to Find Nothing the ‘Same’

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.

01.05.2009
The artist in Syria

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.


01.05.2009
Taking on Sexual Harassment, a Social Phenomenon in Egypt

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. Because they treat it as an isolated aberration from proper social norms – falling outside the path, principles and traditions of a sanctioned way of life – Egyptian society as a whole does not need to confront it.


01.01.2009
Darwish in Orbit: A Celebration of Longing

By Zaid Shilah

The poetry of Mahmoud Darwish is as fundamental a gift to the Arab world as Wole Soyinka’s work is to Nigeria or Derek Walcott’s poems are to the West Indies.  However, Darwish is not as well known in the U.S. as they are, which makes Fady Joudah’s  translation of “The Butterfly’s Burden” all the more important. It acts as a conduit, inviting the reader of English to take a journey into the consciousness and history of the Arab and Palestinian people. 


01.01.2009
Ibn Rushd-The Great Muslim Philosopher Who Planted The Seeds of
European Renaissance

By Habeeb Salloum

Abu al-Walid Muhammad Ibn Rushd, better known in the West as Averroës, but also in medieval times as Avén Ruiz and Averrhoes, was born in 1126 A.D. in Cordova, once the illustrious capital of Moorish Spain. The descendant of a distinguished Cordovan family of scholars, he was the third generation of his lineage to hold the office of qadi [judge]. One of the foremost figures of Arab civilization, he became known as the "Prince of Science"-the master of jurisprudence, mathematics, medicine and, above all, philosophy.


01.10.2008
Mahmoud Darwish:
Home is More Lovely Than the Way Home

By Nouri Al-Jarrah

Mahmoud Darwish returned in May 1996 to Haifa, his first home in Palestine, to sip his mother’s coffee, and to touch the bread wrought by her hands. He is, judging by his biography, a son who expresses more eloquently than most the Palestinian odyssey – with its ships that attempt to cast their anchors on the shores of those who await; does his “symbolic” return therefore signal the realization of an event which has hitherto been mythical, the emergence of a rock from an idea, and the possibility of the return of that idea to the rock?


01.05.2008
Documenting Arab Women Novelists Leads To Re-Writing History

by Mahmoud Saeed

Yes, the Arab book market is flooded, and few books in this deluge merit note. A few new books deserve priority placement on readers' and libraries' book shelves.


01.03.2008
A Conversation with Syrian
Director Usama Muhammad

by Elie Chalala

Would you please introduce yourself, and give us some idea of your background?
My name is Usama Muhammad. I was born in 1954 and am from Latakia, Syria. I graduated in 1979 from Moscow University as a film director. I wrote and directed some short films and worked in Syrian cinema with my friends and colleagues either as a scriptwriter, or in what is called in Syria an "artistic cooperation practice" in which two directors cooperate to make the film of one of them.


01.07.2007
A Father to the Point of Tears

by Faraj Bayrakdar

I’m not sure whether I’ve been a success or a failure at being a father.
    In truth, my circumstances have not made it possible for me to delve thoroughly into this topic. I went into hiding as soon as my daughter was born, and I was arrested before she was four years old. I spent the first five years of my detention with no access to news and no visits. In spite of all that, I feel that I am a father to the point of tears.


01.12.2006
Tears on a Sad Iraqi Face

by Lami'ah Abbas Amarah


01.10.2006
Issam Mahfouz (1939-2006):
Recalling Poet, Playwright, Critic as the Authentic Modernist

by Mohammed Dakroub

Even in his early writings, which were mainly poems, Issam Mahfouz used to “create a sublime and penetrating theater of dialogue,” says Lebanese poet Shawqi abi-Shaqra about his friend. It is a disservice to Mahfouz to sum up his contributions in generalities.


20.07.2005
Condannare senza esitazioni (in italian)

di Tariq Ramadan

La notizia degli attentati di Londra è un nuovo trauma. La nostra condanna è una volta di più netta e assoluta. Gli autori di questi attentati sono assassini dai quali non si possono accettare, e neanche ascoltare, improbabili giustificazioni in nome di un'ideologia, di una religione, di una causa politica.

The best place in the world is on the back of a horse, and the best thing to do in time is to read a book. (Arabic Proverb)

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