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2019The Sinkhole
by Zeinab Habibi
The mind is the most unknown and sometimes the scariest place in the world if it finds its way into the darkness. How long does it take for a human being to give up mercy and kindness and what he was before and think only of himself? Do blackness and misery come from the labyrinthine corridors of the mind or are they inherited? How much do those around us and society play a role in changing our personality and way of life? The Sinkhole confronts the audience’s mind with such questions by telling the story of a lonely girl who finds herself in a morally complicated situation. Monireh came from a small town with honest people and simple issues to Tehran to study for her doctorate and now lives with her aunt's family. The Aunt's family members each have their own problems; Like addiction and depression. Monireh starts to work in a boutique to support herself. But due to a fund deficit and a mistake in her calculation, she owes money to her employer. She has to sort out the money anyway. Monireh is so worried about this that she becomes sleepless and thinks of selling her laptop. But it may be an easier way. For example, emptying the bank account of a beggar for whom she took money from an ATM some time ago. Monireh must decide on this dilemma. Is she allowed to submit to the darkness? How dark is the mind supposed to be, and turns a human being into another creature?
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What is Political in Islam?
by Mostafa Abdelzaher, Mohamed Tewfiq, Zeinab el Baqari and Mostafa Zahran
Many writers and researchers tend to either look into the Islamic phenomenon as a whole or focus on one of its manifestations (Muslim Brotherhood; traditional Salafis; Jihadist Salafis) without considering other manifestations. This book seeks to look into unity and diversity within contemporary Islamic movements in Egypt. On one hand, the book examines the movement’s paths and its branching into different trends, and on the other hand, it examines the general umbrella of the whole phenomenon. This will be within a social-historical context focusing on the role of ideology in establishing political and social trends. This book is a collection of studies by several researchers edited by Mostafa Abdel Zaher. It highlights the patterns of Islamists and the factors behind the raise of political Islamic movements, from the establishment of Muslim Brotherhood to the period after July 2013 in four chapters: the first chapter is devoted to the experiment of the Muslim Brotherhood. The second chapters is for the social structures of Islamic youth in developmental work, students’ activities and simulations models, with a study on the pattern of “column Sheikh” school. The third chapter is for Salafis; their divisions and pragmatic concept of politics – with the transformations of each division after January Revolution and Rabaa events. The last chapter is for the Jihadist movements. The book is only 152 pages. It is like a mapping of the Islamists’ divisions and a memory of the period before January 2011 to post July 2013.
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August 2020Leila Means Night
by Aleksandra Lipczak
For eight centuries, southern Spain has been home to a multicultural political entity founded by the Arabs and co-created by Muslims, Jews and Christians. Medieval Cordoba, Seville and Toledo are bustling metropolises to which merchants, scientists and artists are drawn from all over the world. Here the first tracheotomy procedure is performed and astronomy is developed, here magnificent libraries are created, Greek philosophers are translated, multilingual poetry is written, and foreign policy at the Muslim court is directed by a Jewish diplomat.In a book stretched between history and modernity and between essay and reportage, the author deconstructs popular symbols of Spain (flamenco, mosaics, palm trees), revealing their Muslim-Arab roots. She shows how Andalusia today handles its heritage. Coexistence, the meeting of the so-called West with so-called Islam, the fluidity of borders, but also fundamentalisms, expulsions, exorcising others.... Al-Andalus is a palimpsest that is useful in thinking about the world today. Prizes: Nike Literary Prize 2021 - shortlist Witold Gombrowicz Prize 2021 - winner
