by Turki Al-Hamad | Jul 4, 2007 | Opinion
With much pain and anguish, Umm Kulthum sings reprimanding her presumed lover over his harsh treatment, she sings, “So far away you are from love. To love, you are unfair. If you had fallen in love for just two days, your love would have made you an angel.” If we were...
by Turki Al-Hamad | Jun 26, 2007 | Opinion
In the famous Egyptian film entitled ‘Ana il Madi’ (I am the Past), actor Zaki Rostom plays the role of a wealthy virtuous man who is imprisoned for 25 years for a murder he did not commit. The crime, we discover, was the result of a conspiracy between his friend’s...
by Turki Al-Hamad | Jun 6, 2007 | Opinion
In the Middle East, threads have become so entangled that it has become impossible to distinguish where things start or how they will end. The perpetually agitated region is undoubtedly pregnant, but what will it give birth to? And will it be born alive, or will it be...
by Turki Al-Hamad | May 30, 2007 | Opinion
Back in 1969 when I was 17, I was fascinated by all things nationalistic and leftist. I would hang around bookshops and street book vendors to pick up everything that had to do with Marxism and existentialism and the novels of Maxim Gorky, Sartre and Camus. It was at...
by Turki Al-Hamad | May 22, 2007 | Opinion
The focus of our discussion shall be on the middle class in the Arab world. Notwithstanding what some have referred to as the impact of capital markets, the stock market has played a role in making a minority wealthier while impoverishing many others in what was a...
