Reading and Writing After the Arab Spring

Egypt's Ibrahim Issa on Reading and Writing After the Arab Spring Egyptian journalist and bestselling author Ibrahim Issa believes the Arab Spring has added religious oppression to the existing political hardships of the region.

Is a Digital Book as Devout as a Physical Copy? The devout of all faiths adore their books. They mark their most cherished passages and pass them on to the next generation. Can the same ever be said for a digital edition?

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From the Archives: Against Totalitarianism: Syria’s Nihad Sirees on Fiction and Morality Exiled Syrian novelist Nihad Sirees, whose novel The Silence and the Roar is published in the US today, reflects on the role of a novelist in the midst a totalitarian state.