Theeb: A Bedouin Boy in the WWI Desert
Aimless movie wandering sometimes pays dividends. We happened into a streaming presentation of Theeb, by British-Jordanian director, Abu Nowar. Recipient of considerable …
Tag Archives: Middle East
Tigers on the Tenth Day — Fabled Syria
Zakaria Tamer (b 1931 in Damascus) has been in exile from his native Syria in England since the early 1980s where …
Middle East Literarary Landscapes
I gave, and received, this year a notable reminder that the cultures of the Middle-East — Iranian, Arabic, Turkish– have …
Readings in Contemporary Arabic Literature
I’ve been reading the marvelous Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif, for many weeks, and have begun The Trench, the …