Country: Middle East

Marita Kassis

Netflix blackwashed Queen Cleopatra vs Egyptian pride

A Netflix docudrama series portraying Queen Cleopatra VII as a black African resulted in a […]
Emad Aysha

The Ramadan Mirror – The Fantasy and Sci-Fi of the Comedic Other

Attended a gripping literary and intellectual event the other day at the Insan bookstore, an […]
The Liberum

Humanity locked in a ongoing spiral of self-destruction

I have often wondered why humanity, cyclically and repeatedly, decides to hurt itself by going […]
Emad Aysha

Blaze Ward – On the Social Science of Middle Eastern Space Opera

I know Blaze through my author friend Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi. Blaze helped him designing adverts […]
Arthur Blok

Best-selling Lebanese author Karim El Koussa about his new TV Show: “People need to know the great history of the Phoenicians.”

Best-selling Lebanese author Karim El Koussa just rounded up the filming of ‘Phoenix Oracle’.  A […]
The Liberum

An Egyptian SF city – Meet the mighty ‘morphine’ power dangers

I just finished what I presume is an SF novel, Morphius City (2018), by Muhammad […]
Marco Mattiussi

The Prophet’s 100th birthday will be celebrated in New York

An exceptional year for Kahlil Gibran fans. This year the legendary Lebanese writer and poet […]
Hiba Kilany

When home does not feel like home anymore

My first trip back to Beirut after four long years of abstinence: banks’ bankruptcy, the […]
The Liberum

Mind the gap

While commuting in London through one of the world’s most efficient public transport, the famous […]
The Liberum

The Lebanese waiting room

I was asked to write an analytical piece about life in Lebanon. Life? Lebanon? I […]
Talal Chami

Talal Chami’s latest short story: Wesley Ruggles live from Jurassic Suburbia

-A-RARE-CASE-OF-A-MAN-WHO-REPORTS-THE-NEWS-FROM-THE-BATTLE-ZONE-GETS-HIT-BY-SNIPERS- BLEEDS-TO-DEATH-AND-SHOWS-UP-ON-THE-NEXT-RANDOM-LOCATION-IN-BEIRUT-1986- By Talal ChamiStonie wore a Machiavellian smile and fashioned a Cobra Shades like […]
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Arthur Blok

Episode 05 | Woke and the dangers of radical inclusion

In this latest episode, Paul Cliteur and Arthur Blok discuss the so-called 'Woke agenda'. An […]
Mohammad Ibrahim Fheili

Mohammad Ibrahim Fheili: "How Deep is the Decay in Today’s Global banking industry?"

Various questions linger: what’s been happening in the banking sector? Is it just a hiccup? […]
Marita Kassis

Daylight savings puts Lebanon in two time zones as sectarian rhetoric resurfaces

A governmental decision to push daylight savings by a few weeks sends the country in […]
Arthur Blok

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman takes the lead in the region by signing a deal with Iran

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s plans to reform and reposition his country in the […]
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