Emotions Are Positive
When we think about emotions, we tend only to think about the negative ones – fear, anger and distress. But this is because the mass media over-emphasizes negative emotions and...
Category: Readings
How We Are Undone By Each Other
In Undoing Gender, her 2004 book of reflections on gender and sexuality, Judith Butler writes about how we deeply affect each other. Let’s face it. We’re undone by each other....
Investigating “The Shaking Woman”
I first learned of Siri Hustvedt when a friend of mine told me she was reading her fourth novel, “The Sorrows of an American“, in which the author explores family connectedness,...
A Meeting With Rabih Alameddine
In May 2010, I attended “A Meeting with Rabih Alameddine”, organized by the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature and ASSABIL, Friends of Public Libraries, which also coincided with the publication of...
A Little Gem From The “Afterlives”
I don’t think I’ll ever stop singing the praises of David Eagleman’s superb collection of short-stories, “Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives.” I remember when I bought it, I was...
If God Existed, Why Doesn’t He Show Himself To His Creation?
A few weeks ago, I was having a Twitter conversation with my friend @Seleucid about god and the creation of the universe. The discussion grew from British physicist Stephen Hawking’s...
By The River Ibrahim I Sat Down And Read…
By the River Ibrahim I Sat Down and Read… “Death at Intervals” by Jose Saramago “Death at Intervals” is set in an unnamed country where on the first day of...
When Will There Be No More Strangers in the House?
Last Friday, I finished reading the autobiography-cum-historical account “Strangers in the House” by Raja Shehadeh. Drawing from the jacket, “Shehadeh was born into a successful Palestinian family with a beautiful...
Favorite Quotes: The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society
A very good friend of mine gifted me this book on my 29th birthday. Don’t be put off by the long and odd title. The book is a gem and...
