Egyptian Show, Secret of the Nile, Proves to Transcend Language Barriers
When the Spanish drama series, Gran Hotel, ran from 2011 to 2013, no one realized the global impact it would soon have. After being broadcast across the world, the original series paved the way for numerous renditions in an assortment of…
Sand Storm: Minority Portrayal and Representation in Modern Film
Sand Storm looks at a Bedouin family in the Southeast of Israel and follows the struggle of both a mother and daughter to navigate the complex and patriarchal society in which they live. The film was produced by an Israeli producer and…
Review of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture
Dwight F. Reynolds is the author of the book “The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture”. It was published in 2015. Reynolds covers a very broad variety of topics within this book from Arab cinema to Arab religion to Arab cuisine. In…
Let’s Get Kuffiyeh’d Up
Columbus is the diverse capital of the oddly shaped state named Ohio. It is home to one of the largest universities in the country, THE Ohio State University. This university, like its home city, has a diverse population amongst it….
The Beauty in the Disaster of Capernaum
A person can learn a lot about not only about different forms of film techniques but as well as the interpretation of life in third world countries for people young and old in the film Capernaum produced in 2018 by Nadine Labaki….
The Open Door as an Example of the Differences Between Egyptian Golden Age Film and Books
The Open Door by Latifah al-Zayyat was published in 1960. Its plot takes place in Egypt and focuses on nationalism in relation to the desire to discover oneself. The main character, Layla, struggles to find out who she really is. Layla deals with…
The Insult: The Illegal Gutter
The Insult is a new film from Ziad Doueiri. It’s a Lebanese film nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar in 2018. It’s one of those movies that while it’s dealing with some really heavy issues, it is a fantastic piece of…
Is the place that I live in part of my identity?
I read an article posted on The Gaurdian called “America accepted me -an Algerian Muslim- in a way France never did by Melyssa Haffaf (2016). In this article, Haffaf talks about her childhood growing up in Algeria and how she had to…
Al-Mutanabbi’s Ode to Sayf Al-Dawlah OR Al-Mutanabbi’s Eulogy for Those Whose Deaths Were Fated
“Who dares, wins!” as proclaimed by Al-Mutanabbi al-Kindi is the opening line of a striking ode titled, Strong Resolves Come (1). Al-Mutanabbi’s famous Qasida is translated from the Arabic; in Arabic the title اهل قدرعلىالعزم is in fact the poem’s opening line which translates verbatim to, “strong resolutions come to…
Ghosts or Jinn?
When looking at the US film industry, even since its commencement, Arabs and the Arab culture haven’t had much of a presence except for the occasional terrorist or some Mediterranean cuisine. Recently however, this has changed to help the representation of the…