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Opinion: Unified Symbols

by Samir Atallah | Dec 6, 2016 | Opinion

There are names and titles in the world’s literature that are recollected in every era by almost all writers. For example, the “Trojan Horse” is an example of a mysterious conspiracy. “Romeo and Juliet” is a work of reference for writing on love amongst most writers...

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Terrorism in Western, Arabic Novels

by Riyadh Moasas | Nov 9, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture

Paris – Over the past two decades, literature has deeply reflected the realities of communities in regard of terrorism; as it has been the reflection of every society and the writer’s inspiration source – from which he chose his tools of expression as...

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Opinion: When Nobel Mixes the Genres

by Amir Taheri | Oct 21, 2016 | Opinion

Last month, Geir Lundestad, the former secretary of the Nobel Academy broke the august body’s traditional reserve to express his deepest regrets in having awarded Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008. “That was a big mistake,” Lundestad lamented. Should we...

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Leona, 7, poses inside a labyrinth installation made up of 250,000 books in London, 2012. Olivia Harris / Reuters

The Unicorn: Novel with Theatrical Soul

by Adel El-Adawy | Aug 4, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture

Cairo-It is not the first time that different types of literature are merged and we may have gotten used to such texts in poetry, songs, and others. Yet in this novel, we are facing a narration called “monodrama” … It is “The Unicorn” (Wahid al-Qarn) novel for...

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Palestinian novelist Rabai al-Madhoun

Man Booker Prize Goes to Asharq Al-Awsat Newspaper Colleague Al-Madhoun

by Mirza Al-Khuwaylidi | Apr 27, 2016 | Media

Abu Dhabi- Palestinian novelist Rabai al-Madhoun’s “Destinies: Concerto of the Holocaust and the Nakba” won the ninth International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF). The novelist is the first Palestinian to ever win the IPAF, despite him making it to the shortlist in...