Monthly Archives: January 2011

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In Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North, published in 1966, an unnamed university graduate returns to his home country, Sudan, full of hope about the new era of independence in his country. But an old man from his … Continue reading →

The tyrant exists only in the imagination of his subjects; the master resides only in the perception of the slave. Attempts at defiance have been abundant in the recent history of the Arabs, many of them in Palestine, but unlike … Continue reading →

The Arab world has not been as stagnant nor as apathetic as is widely claimed. This week’s events in Egypt, while unusual in their scale, are a continuation of a movement that can be traced back through my whole lifetime: … Continue reading →

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