I believe that patriarchal systems across the world are on the verge of collapse. The patriarchal system I am referring to goes beyond the system of values governing the relationship between men and women. Patriarchy is a hierarchical structure of (...)
From India which is "a great country" to Botswana where little Sylvia goes to a "rich people's school", and from the 2006 Israeli invasion of Beirut to a heart that is being opened by surgeons and probed by poetry, the second session of the El Gouna (...)
The first question Samar Ali's English poetry collection Tannoura (Malameh Publishing House, 2008) is expected to pose is the choice of language. A few years ago, I would have looked with suspicion on Egyptian writers choosing a language other than (...)
