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طريق العشق
طريق العشق
By: Ramzi Amine on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Essays

رغم أن والدي كان من عاشقي فلسفة "ديكارت" الذي قال "افكر إذن أنا موجود" فأنا شخصياً أميل إلى فلسفة "أنا أعشق إذن أنا موجود". فيبدولي أن عشق الحياة هي غايتها. وصحيح أن تعال...

The Search for Happiness
The Search for Happiness
By: Khalid Kishtainy on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Essays

Humor By Khalid kishtainy Tranlsated by Ramsis Amun Goodday! My first intellectual foray as a child was an attempt to discover what happiness was and how I could find it. I was thirteen years o...

The "Absurd" in Naguib Mahfouz's plays
The "Absurd" in Naguib Mahfouz's plays
By: Mustafa Riad on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Theater

In the late sixties and early seventies, Naguib Mahfouz tried his hand at a number of one-act plays that were widely regarded as experiments in the tradition of the absurd. Mahfouz, who wrote his majo...

Reflections on Love
Reflections on Love
By: Ramzi Amine on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Essays

A promise in love We make promises out of either fear or true love. The promises we make out of fear we will break. The promises we make out of true love we keep. It is impossible, if I truly lo...

Nights At the Circus Reading The Semiotics of A Title
Nights At the Circus Reading The Semiotics of A Title
By: Saleh Razzouk on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews

This is a reflection on : Nights At The Circus , Novel by Angela Carter , 295p., Cover desighned by : Dominic Davies, Vintage Books , UK. If the title is not the cork-plug of the text, is informat...

The Cucumber and the Cactus (A Palestinian Christian Story)
The Cucumber and the Cactus (A Palestinian Christian Story)
By: Mazin Qumsiyeh on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Essays

There is something uniquely spiritual, yet uniquely primeval, in people connected to a land. Even for those of us who work in a sophisticated and mobile culture, simply to get our hands into the earth...

Performance Poetry with Reference to Agnes Meadows and her Palestinian Poems
Performance Poetry with Reference to Agnes Meadows and her Palestinian Poems
By: Said Abdelwahed on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Literary Studies

In our way, we’re the recorders of history right now: AIDS, racism, sexism, homophobia. Kevin Powell -- Don’t Feel No Way. “I say what I think ... I write what I see.” Agn...

Troubadour Poetry: An Intercultural Experience
Troubadour Poetry: An Intercultural Experience
By: Said Abdelwahed on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Literary Studies

ABSTRACT: This is a reading of the intercultural experience of the medieval poetry known as the Troubadour poetry. It’s a study of the origin, meaning, music and structure of the lyric love poe...

England and the East in James Morier's Hajji Baba of Ispahan
England and the East in James Morier's Hajji Baba of Ispahan
By: Said Abdelwahed on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Literary Studies

In the depth of this Oriental Stage stands a prodigious cultural repertoire whose individual items evoke a fabu-lously rich world: the Sphinx, Cleopatra, Eden, Troy, Sodom and Gomorrah, Astarte, Isis...

Humanism, Nationalism and History in Michael Davitt's Gaelic Poem "O My Two Palestinians"
Humanism, Nationalism and History in Michael Davitt's Gaelic Poem "O My Two Palestinians"
By: Said Abdelwahed on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Literary Studies

The poetic calling develops out of a pact made between people and poet; hence the power of such invocations to an actual poem ... (1) Michael Davitt (1950-2005) is a contemporary Irish stage producer...

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