Features

Dogs of war

Gaza gang boss Ahmed Dogmosh finds himself in an unenviable position – at war with Hamas in their own backyard. But so far, he’s more than holding his own

Planet of the Arabs

His ground-breaking book Reel Bad Arabs has now spawned a documentary - NOX talks to Jack Shaheen about Arab portrayals in Hollywood

F1 Dreams

Basil Shaaban wants one thing in life and one thing only – to be the first Arab driver in Formula 1

Tony

America’s favourite Arab, Tony Shalhoub has managed to avoid negative stereotypes or one-dimensional roles

Qubic feat

Jordan isn’t exactly on the hip-hop map. Or any musical map. But with talent, connections and a high-speed modem, E-Qube and MC Maze may just be about to change that

Ten thousand bombs

Rawi Hage’s DeNiro’s Game is a fearless novel about adolescence and loss

War is a four letter word

David Rees’s brilliant, bruising and bleep-ridden comic strip Get Your War On is as old as the War on terror itself. With the bombs falling in Iraq, there’s no real sign it will ever let up

The true cost of the US war on Iraq

Nobel-prize-winning economist has put chilling new figures to the US folly in the Middle East

Thousand bombs

Centring on a friendship that is first consolidated then emboldened by Lebanon’s civil war, Rawi Hage’s DeNiro’s Game is a fearless novel about adolescence and loss

Brown Eyed Girl

A complete makeover and a new collection of songs, but Dina Hayek remains the most credible of Lebanon’s new generation of singers – and definitely one of the most alluring.