Feb 28, 2023 | Arts & Culture, Books & Literature
By Mohammad Al Sahily | Staff Writer Naguib Mahfouz is one of the greatest Arab novelists of the modern era, and the only Arab to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (which he won in 1988). Throughout his large body of work, he tried to address the raw realities of...
Jan 30, 2023 | Arts & Culture, Books & Literature
By Garo Kerdelian | Staff Writer Life on the Mississippi is the memoir of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens, more famously known by his pen name Mark Twain. While commonly celebrated in the mainstream for his stories about young troublemakers, such as The...
Jan 15, 2023 | Books & Literature, Campus
by Zeina Bazarbachi | contributing writerGiving a public talk is no easy task. One must balance multiple elements, whether it comes to form or content. On October 17, 2022, I attended Princeton University’s Associate Professor Max Weiss’ public talk, which was...
Dec 6, 2022 | Arts & Culture, Books & Literature
By Tala Abou Ali | Staff Writer In her debut novel Bonjour Tristesse (1954), a then 18 year old Francoise Sagan tells the story of Cecile, an adolescent girl who has been pursuing a life of pleasure and fun with her father Raymond ever since she exited the nunnery....
Dec 6, 2022 | Arts & Culture, Books & Literature
By Elena Hijazi | Staff Writer Lolita is an infamous classic novel written by the Russian author, Vladimir Nabokov that you have undoubtedly heard of. This piece of literature has brought forth many controversies yet transcends the test of time and continues being one...
Dec 6, 2022 | Arts & Culture, Books & Literature
By Rahaf Al-Mawed | Staff Writer Spoiler Alert: 1984, Never Let Me Go, We, Brave New World, The Hunger Games Dystopian literature is definitely a captivating literary genre, mainly because of the insight it gives and the realism it depicts, which often resonates with...
