January 2015 – Page 2

US Maintains Intelligence Relationship with Houthis

January 31, 2015 Sara 0

Senior US intelligence official Michael Vickers said Jan. 21 that the United States is continuing attacks on al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) despite ongoing violence in ……Read More

Why the UAE’s Star is Rising

January 31, 2015 Sara 0

Major American media organizations have been running stories lately that feature one of Washington’s Persian Gulf allies, the United Arab Emirates, as a favored partner ……Read More

6 Outfits That Make Leggings Look Really Good

January 31, 2015 Afsheen Shafiq 1

Leggings are one of the most versatile pieces in your closet. Sometimes, they walk and talk like pants, and others they make like a clever ……Read More

Books

A Poem from Shaimaa El-Sabbagh: ‘I’m the Girl Banned from Christian Religion Classes’

January 31, 2015 Sara 0

Egyptian poet Maged Zaher has translated another work by the slain poet Shaimaa El-Sabbagh. This one was recorded on video and has been watched more than a hundred ……Read More

Absurdity v. Absurdity, or: How to Fight the Lebanese Censorship Bureau

January 31, 2015 Sara 0

MARCH continues to troll Lebanon’s censorship bureau with frustrating and funny results: Authors have long turned censorship into absurd or absurdist art: Nihad Sirees’sSilence and the ……Read More

February 2015: Global Arab and Arabic Literary Events Calendar

January 31, 2015 Sara 0

A global calendar of Arabic literary events — with some translational element — in February 2015. Add your events in below or email them in: ……Read More