Culture
Egypt: Hardly Any Copts Play Professional Football: Who Is to Blame?
Over the past 30 years, only 12 Christians players made it into the Egyptian Premier…
Syrian Photographer Mohammed Badra: Crossing the Sirat with a Camera in Hand
The son of Douma, who lived through the tragedies and atrocities of the siege, found…
Egypt: Where a Facebook Post May Land You in Prison for a Decade (1)
Kafka meets Orwell in Egypt’s surreal brave new world, where a like, share or post…
Iranian film Disturbs Relations Between Erbil and Tehran
Kurdish leaders and their supporters are up in arms over a short Iranian movie showing…
Sweden’s Arab Book Fair: Criticism Beyond An Anti-Semitic Writer
An Arab book fair in Sweden sparked widespread criticism after displaying a book that presented…
About a City Floating Above Sadness and Memory: Beirut’s Story
The problematic question that arises when dealing with this disaster is, should we repair the…
The Third Conversion of Hagia Sophia
Many secular Turks feel that the conversion of the most famous Istanbul museum to a…
Syrian Childhood: From Freedom Sketches to Sexual Assault Visuals
Stations of history are narrated through stories, pictures and videos from the Syrian childhood tragedy……
Midhat Pasha in Beirut
I would not blame that young Armenian boy I was for the negative feelings towards…
Syrian TV Dramas: The Collapse of Freedom
The increasing censorship, which includes omitting scenes from dramas, totally prohibiting broadcasting them, or even…