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Fruitless Festivals, Conferences

by Fadel al-Sultani | Sep 19, 2016 | Features

In the past, while the unions of Arabic books, public and private cultural institutions didn’t exist or were in the founding stage, we used to have special magazines that represented real interaction means among poets, writers, critics, and the Arabian reader. Thanks...

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Landscapes of Iraqi Poetry: Reconfiguring the Image of Iraq in
the Arabic (and American) Lyric Canon

Myth of Centres and Margins

by Fadel al-Sultani | Aug 29, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture

Do ranks still exist in our Arab culture as they were in the sixties and seventies? Are Cairo, Baghdad, and Beirut still the centres of that past blissful time, and are the margins that once included other Arab countries like the Gulf and Morocco, still the same? Even...

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Supporters of the anti-immigration right-wing movement Pegida. Reuters

History and Popular Speech

by Fadel al-Sultani | Aug 8, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture

How did popular speech breach the British society and isolate it from its European entourage? We used to think that the hypocrite, miserable, and misleading speech only succeeds in our communities that suffer from social and cultural relapse and need a lot of...