ISSUE 1 - DECEMBER 2008

Body talk by Joumana Haddad

Voyeur s Corner - Jad

The ‘B’ Radar - Dima Saad

This Month s Featured Themes

■ Fetishism: the Key to Sensuality

- In the Beginning was the Foot - Ali Zaraqet

- Beauty Perfected in a Pair of Bare Feet - Ibrahim Farghali

- Extract of Fumiko’s Foot, by Jonishiro Tanizaki, translated by Antoine Jockey

- Relevant Publications

■ Is Cannibalism a New Religion?

- I will raise a Human at Home - Hisham Fahmi

- Chronology and Key Events - Nour Al-Asaad

- Who are the Barbarians: Them or Us? by Michel De Montaigne, translated by Antoine Jockey

- Relevant Publications

■ I am Gay, therefore I do not Exist

- Is it Time to Normalise ‘Sexual Deviance’? - Maha Hassan

- The Trials and Tribulations of a Young Lebanese Gay Man - Fidel Sbayti

- Outside the Gay ‘Force Field’ - Rami Al-Amine

- Relevant Publications

My First Time - Amine Al Basha

Unequivocally

■ Joumana Haddad in conversation with Catherine Millet: “In praise of masturbation”

- Excerpt from The Sexual Life of Catherine M, (La Vie Sexuelle de Catherine M.) translated by Nour Al-As’ad

Arts

■ Essays

- The legend of the body: from the gelatinousness of the eye to the intuition of vision - Yusuf Limoud

- Francesca Woodman following her body’s inspiration - Farouq Yusuf

- One cannot see one’s own pleasure - Issa Makhlouf

■ Exhibitions

- Darkside: Photographic Desire and Desired Photography (Zurich) - Yusuf Limoud

- The Woman Through Ionas’s Lens (Paris) - Antoine Jockey

- Body Worlds & The Mirror of Time (London) – Zeina Sawaya

- Sensual Bronze Bodies (Gothenburg) - Muhammed ‘Afif Al-Husseini

■ The Issue’s Focus Artist - Ninar Esber

Literature

■ Studies and Reports

- The body caught between autonomy and the hegemony of advertising - Faisal Darraj

- On the sesame seed, worship, and the watering mouth - Muhammed Al-Houjayri

- Virginia, who hated her body so much that she killed it - Fatima Naout

■ Books

- Lebanese Rana Salam explores the life of Syrian lingerie - Hanin Al-Ahmar

- Dutch Doeschka Meijsing tells her love for Cassandra - Emad Fouad

- Egyptian Hamid Abdul-Samd breaks the taboo of rape - Ibrahim Farghali

■ From the Opposite River Bank - Iskandar Habash translates Louis Calaferte

His Body Her Body (in the alphabetical order of their names in Arabic)

Tahar Ben jelloun: The swallowed man

Abass Baydoun: Let’s call her Ikram

Qubadi Jali Zadeh: Erotica

Musa Hawamdeh: Your sluttish hands

Sabah Zouein: In the plains of nudity

Paul Shaoul: That body

Hajer Saleh: Me and my neighbour

Mohammed-Salah Al-Azeb: Electronic orgasms

Aqel Al-Awit: Lust of teeth

Dana Ghali: My swollen lips

Fadwa Qasem: My breasts

Abdu Wazen: I looked at my body, and I felt embarrassed

Habib Younes: We sleep on your bed

Cinema

- Old-fashioned pleasures - Muhammed Sueid

- My story with the sexual pioneers on the screen - Hauvick Habechian

- the princess of porn celebrates her seventieth birthday – Sakhr Al Hajj Hasan

Geography of Desire

Water and nudity paint Amsterdam - Ali Al Bazzaz

Body dot com

ARTENUDA – reviewed by Roula Rached

Eros in the kitchen

Ninar Esber

Adults Only

Darina Al-Jundi’s Body