Mohammad Shoair waxes moribund
It was a year of absence, perhaps the year of absence: a culture suddenly deprived of a great number of its pillars. The scholar Nassr Hamid Abu Zaid, the critic Farouk Abdel-Qadir, the poet Mohammad Afifi Matar, the (...)
Mohammad Shoair wonders why so many books are being banned
With Arab regimes disagreeing over the books their respective peoples should read, censorship is no longer a surprising phenomenon. Last week the administration of the 35th Kuwait (...)
After the publication of his latest book, Hugratan wa Salah: Mutataliya Manziliyya (Two Rooms and a Hall: A Household Sequence), the veteran fiction writer reached his 75th year. Scheduled for commercial release any time now is a new film named (...)
