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Ibrahim Maalouf

Golden Boy between Paris and Beirut

The young Lebanese musician Ibrahim Maalouf has played trumpet for Amadou & Mariam, Lhasa and Bumcello, and has also enjoyed a brilliant classical career. On his debut album, Maalouf fuses oriental and electronic sounds into a unique musical language. Stefan Franzen met him in Marseille
Michel Kammoun's "Falafel"

A Summer Night in Lebanon

Director Michel Kammoun received nine awards for his film "Falafel", about the violent atmosphere in Beirut. Guylaine Tappaz spoke with him and saw the film
Copyright and the Arab Publisher

A Catch-22 Situation: Caught between Censorship and a Weak Book Market

What drives Arab publishers and cultural institutes to book piracy? Do they want to give Arab readers access to international literature or is it all just about the bottom line? Khaled Al-Maaly, a publisher who lives and works in Germany, relates his experiences
Portrait: the Israeli Singer-Songwriter Ofer Golany

Conspiracy of Love

In his teens, Ofer Golany voluntarily served an extra year in the Israeli army after the standard three. Now, however, the Israeli singer-songwriter and peace campaigner has initiated an anti-militarist project called "Guns 2 Guitars". Martina Sabra met up with the activist and artist
"Philosophers' Beds" – an Exhibition by Gloria Zein

Taking the Bed to Tehran

Over the past two years, the Berlin artist Gloria Zein has been meeting with ten philosophers to discuss the topic of "the bed" – and the issues of waking and sleeping, seduction and love. What emerged was quite enough material for an exhibition, and it is now showing in Tehran. Cordula Echterhoff reports
Documentary Film: "Telling Strings"

Living on Islands

The Palestinian singer and oud player Kamilya Joubran came to international fame with the folk music group Sabreen from East Jerusalem. Together with the Swiss film-maker Anne-Marie Haller, Joubran has made a film about her family in Israel. Martina Sabra saw the film and found it both moving and well worth watching
"Shahida – Brides of Allah"

An Israeli View of Female Palestinian Terrorists

Over a period of two years, the Israeli director Natalie Assouline visited Palestinian women who were imprisoned after failed suicide attacks in Israel. The result is a moving film full of contradictions; Igal Avidan has seen it
Darfur: The "Ambiguous" Genocide

Pessimist Manifesto

In his book on the war in Darfur, Gérard Prunier, an expert on Africa and genocide, laments the international community's inability to provide effective protection for the conflict's victims. Annette Weber comments
The Cairo International Book Fair 2006

Censorship Is a Topic of Conversation

This year the Arab world's biggest book fair has a major change in store: Cairo will feature a guest of honor. The first guest of honor will be Germany. Mona Naggar reports from Cairo
Interview with Véronique Rieffel

"Islam Is Not Standardised"

The mission of the ‘Institut des Cultures d'Islam - Paris’ is to convey the diversity of Islamic culture. Suleman Taufiq spoke to its director Véronique Rieffel