Books
The Return of ‘The Arab of the Future’
The second comic in Riad Sattouf’s award-winning L’Arabe du Futur series, titled L’Arabe du Futur 2,”was released in France on June 11, and is already garnering wide ……Read More
Lifestyle
Health
Is Aspartame Actually Bad For You?
PHOTOGRAPHED BY CHRISTY KURTZ. In a matter of months, Pepsi will replace aspartame with sucralose in their Diet Pepsi drinks — even Wild Cherry ……Read More
Books
Battle over Free Speech for Artists and Writers in Israel
In mid-April, pots began banging over Parallel Time, a production for which the state froze Haifa-based al-Midan Theatre’s financing. The state also began an investigation into the theatre’s financing, and the Education ……Read More
Immigration
Another High-Profile Advocate for Illegal Aliens Bites the Dust in Utah
Illegal aliens in Utah, along with the Obama administration and amnesty advocacy groups, are mourning the forced resignation of Utah's pro-amnesty Salt Lake City police ……Read More
Community
Four Hindu temples launched in Europe
Four Hindu temples in Switzerland, Norway, Scotland and Germany solemnized their formal opening in the recent months, reports suggest. A warehouse in an industrial area ……Read More
Books
Re-membering: How to Assemble a Corpus of Classical Arabic Literature
What follows is an overview of the first session of the “A Corpus Not a Canon: A Workshop on the Library of Arabic Literature,” held ……Read More