If you follow news from Arabic sources, both the traditional and new media, while simultaneously relying on news from Western sources, you will feel as if you were living in a different world....
“Oriented,” set in Tel Aviv, presents the dilemmas of three gay Arab men struggling with their Arab/Palestinian identities in Israeli society. While the film doesn’t cover new territory in ...
In his trilogy, “Youth Behind Bars,” Iranian filmmaker, Mehrdad Oskouei exposes the lost innocence of juveniles incarcerated in Iranian Correctional Facilities, posing the question of social ...
For quite some time, the Lebanese journalistic community has engaged in an ongoing debate concerning the future of their print media. This occurs at a time already impacted by previous closings o...
Celebration descended into grief in Istanbul as a terrorist attack on a nightclub claimed 39 lives, and left dozens more wounded just an hour after midnight on New Year’ s Day. The victims, man...
https://rinabrundu.com/2017/02/27/terror-in-istanbul-discord-in-beirut-when-are-the-innocent-guilty/
by Farag Bayrakdar. I belong to the 1950s generation, having been brought up socialized by Nasserite, Baathist, Communist and secular cultures. The meaning of nation for me gradually changed thro...
Exactly a short while ago nine elegant bullets ago In some revolver or in the head. Since a city embroidered with slogans by day, and sentenced to death by night. Since open borders Known only to...
https://rinabrundu.com/2016/12/01/a-poem-by-farag-bayrakdar-the-rose-and-my-friend-somehow/
by Elie Chalala. Many Mideast scholars and political groups have grown increasingly concerned with the dwindling numbers and persecutions of Mideast Christians. One Lebanese scholar, Dr. Antoine...
Still from the film “Let Them Come” (2015). by Bobby Gulshan. The Algerian Civil War began in 1991 and ended in 2002. Known as the Dark Decade, the period began with a coup to nullify the imm...
https://rinabrundu.com/2016/09/21/reckoning-with-darkness-looking-back-on-algerias-dark-decade/
Amin Maalouf, perhaps the most famous and popular member of the French Academy, is a best-selling author and known as an intellectual whose works “honored” the French language. Perhaps none...
https://rinabrundu.com/2016/06/26/amin-maalouf-talks-about-his-latest-book-origins/
Introduction by Elie Chalala. Recently the Lebanese branch of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement has issued a statement asking Amin Maalouf to apologize for an interview with ...
by Rima Assaf. While preparing my report on the Holocaust of Aleppo, I felt the customary format of broadcast news did not allow me to express my feelings. Thus, I have resorted to these written ...
by Salam Kawakibi. For more than five decades, the Syrian child was subjected to an orderly process of upbringing to control the phases of his growth and maturity. Following the nursery phase, wh...
https://rinabrundu.com/2016/04/10/syrian-children-and-the-exit-from-the-dark-tunnel/
by Elie Chalala. Since the 2011 March uprising, scores of books have been published on Syrian politics, with most written by a new generation of scholars with no longstanding background in what m...
by Nada Ramadan Elnahla. In 1984, Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898-1987) – a major literary and intellectual figure in Egypt and the Arab world who contributed to the development of Arabic literature, –...
https://rinabrundu.com/2016/01/11/tawfiq-al-hakim-foretelling-the-youth-revolution/