A Swiss, two Palestinians and one disgruntled Egyptian: Iman Hamam reviews an exhibition
What's the occasion? Could it be the discovery of more tunnels dug by Hamas in the Gaza Strip? The shooting of two members of the militant Palestinian Popular (...)
Yes, Mohamed was a Prophet -- but also a family man, merchant, and politician. Iman Hamam extols the example of a very human messenger
The story goes like this: when Prophet Mohamed was a young child, he was playing in the desert with his foster (...)
Compiled by Iman Hamam and Mahmoud El-Wardani
FICTION
Malamih al-shawati' al-ba'ida (Features of Distant Shores), Ramsis Labib, Alexandria: New Culture Library, 2005. pp250
This book contains the collected works of Ramsis Labib, comprising three (...)
Compiled by Iman Hamam and Mahmoud El-Wardani
FICTION
Beirutius: madina taht al-ard (Beirutius: an Underground City), Rabie Gaber, Beirut: Dar al-Adab, 2005. pp239
Between 1992 and 2003 Lebanese novelist Rabie Gaber published ten novels, on average (...)
As Lebanon marked this month the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war 30 years ago, Iman Hamam discusses images of the war in film. Concentrating on Maroun Baghdadi's Little Wars, she traces the dichotomy of normal and abnormal, the collapse of the (...)
After a crash course in the complex antics of independent film, Iman Hamam decides this is more than a case of wobbly camera syndrome
Last week, the works of conceptual artist and cofounder of the Arab Image Foundation Akram Zaatari and documentary (...)
