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Go topSOURCE: THE NATIONAL BY: CHRIS NEWBOULD Amr Gamal’s social commentary 10 Days Before the Wedding is not only Yemen’s first ever submission to the foreign language film category at the Oscars, but is also believed to be the first film ever produced, shot and publicly screened in the country since its warring North and South … Continued
By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer CHAPTER I Where the Breezes Blow The wind blowing across Saskatchewan’s desert waste Blew me misery and hardship and a bitter taste, Made me forget my youthful thrills and joys After I grew in years and worldly ways embraced. In past years, I hunted on the cold western … Continued
By: Annika Wolfe/Arab America Contributing Writer One of the most exciting things about expecting a new addition to your family is choosing a name. There are millions of names to choose from, making the process of choosing a name for your child incredibly difficult. If you are looking for suggestions or inspiration, then this article … Continued
SOURCE: RUDAW ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — An exhibition in Damascus is displaying artifacts which have been preserved through the Syrian conflict in a bid to preserve and showcase Levantine history. “At least 9,000 archaeological artifacts have been recaptured. We brought 500 of them to this exhibition as examples,” Mahmoud Hamoud, antiquities chief, told AFP on … Continued
We should opt for a more genuine and balanced approach to identity, beginning with acknowledging differences and their importance for our social composition. العربية SOURCE: OPEN DEMOCRACY Translated by Pascale Menassa This article forms part of a special series focused on Oral Culture and Identity in Syria. It is the outcome of an ongoing partnership between SyriaUntold and openDemocracy’s … Continued
SOURCE: MIDDLE EAST ONLINE CAIRO – In nearly every modern novel in Standard Arabic there is bound to be dialogue written in dialectical Arabic. This style feature feeds the feud between supporters of the sole use of Standard Arabic and those who favour injecting local dialects. Even though a new round of the battle is … Continued
SOURCE: AL ARABIYA BY: AFTAB HUSAIN KOLA India, the world’s sixth-largest coffee grower, on an average produces about 3.2 lakh tons of coffee every year of which 75 percent are exported to countries like Italy, Germany, Russia, Belgium and Turkey. Today, India is home to 16 distinct varieties of coffee. The journey of coffee to … Continued
SOURCE: VARIETY BY: NICK VIVARELLI Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival has wrapped its second edition, with Singaporean director Yeo Slew Hua’s noir title “A Land Imagined” winning the Golden Star, the fest’s top prize, awarded by a jury headed by Oscar-winning Croatian producer Cedomir Kolar (“No Man’s Land”). The genre pic, shot mostly at night, … Continued
SOURCE: ABOUT HER Just days after Saudi Arabia set out to break a number of world records during its 88th National Day celebrations, first with the largest mug cake mosaic (which took 30 bakers almost 8 hours to create) and then with the largest national flag to be displayed in the sky (last year it … Continued
By: Ivey Noojin/Arab America Contributing Writer Only recently has there been a push for more Arabic literature in the United States, and therefore celebrations of Arab American writers are also a new development. The first and only museum devoted to Arab American culture opened in 2005, called the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, … Continued
By Emiliya Strahilova/Arab America Contributing Writer It’s hard and unfair to label music nowadays, artists are taking influences from endless and diverse sources, and yet, one thing is clear – what is on the surface is not what is under the ground. Yasmine Hamdan is popular but certainly not part of the mainstream. Her career … Continued
By: Habeeb Salloum, Arab America Contributing Writer PART I INTRODUCTION TO THE PRAIRIE RUBAlYAT From my early youth when I first read the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, I have been enthralled by the verses of that world-renowned Persian poet and his type of poetry. Of course, it was not the poet himself but rather Edward … Continued
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