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Qatar crisis redraws red lines and frays age-old Gulf ties
Middle East
August 12, 2017
Qatar crisis redraws red lines and frays age-old Gulf ties
It’s early morning at a fishing port in Dubai. A group of mostly retired fishermen are playing cards, eating dates…
‘Revolutions everywhere’: Egypt’s novelists shift the red lines
Books
March 31, 2011
‘Revolutions everywhere’: Egypt’s novelists shift the red lines
The red lines that box in Egypt’s literary scene have both lightened and darkened under the 30-year Mubarak regime. Space…
The Arab Novel: Freedom of religion, freedom of literature
Books
December 14, 2010
The Arab Novel: Freedom of religion, freedom of literature
Sunday marked the opening of the fifth International Forum for Arab Novel Creativity in Cairo, held at the Cairo Opera…