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Issue 2 - March 2009 Body Talk - Joumana Haddad Voyeur’s Corner - illustrated by Armand Homsi The Body Radar - translated by Nour Al-As’ad and Dima Sa’ad This Month’s Featured Themes * The Penis - between His and Hers Sneaking underneath the fig leaf - Hussein Abbas The woman also has a penis - Yusuf Limoud Testimony: from Hadi to Huda - a woman, but...? The problematics of interpretation - Sakhr Al-Hajj Hasan I’ll tell you about my penis - Rami Al-Amine An extract from Nefzawi’s The Perfumed Garden: on naming men’s sexual organs An extract from Reiko Matsuura’s Penis d’Orteil, translated from the French by Antoine Jockey * A Lover’s Punch is a Sweet Treat (a well-known popular Arabic idiom) Introduction to the culture of violence in couples - Muna Fayad An examination of the aesthetics of bruising - Yusuf Limoud The story of Anna, who hits her husband - Hanin Al-Ahmar A little noise, a lot of violence - Maha Hassan An extract from Tandis que Vous, by Carole Fives, translated from the French by Al-Ma’ti Qabbal My First Time, by Rasha Al-Amir Unequivocally * An interview with the French philosopher Michel Onfray - Al-Ma’ti Qabbal * An extract from Le Souci des Plaisirs: Construction d’une érotique solaire, translated from the French by Nour Al-As’ad Arts Essays * Pin-up artists - Yusuf Limoud * A portrait in a body: Lucien Freud - Yusuf Limoud * The bodies of Pina Bausch - Najwa Barakat Exhibitions * Dutch artist Francine Kreig studies the history of desire - Ali Al-Bazzaz * French artist Lucien Clergue photographs the body’s waters - Antoine Jockey The Issue’s Focus Artists: Yasmina Alaoui and Marco Guerra Literature ■ Studies and Reports * The body on stage - Watfa Hamadeh * The heat of erotic literature melts Milan’s snow - Dima Sa’ad * A look at the experience of The Erotic Review - Nour Al-As’ad ■ Books * Desiring Arabs – reviewed by Bassam Franjieh * Sex and Power - reviewed by Antoine Jockey * Her Only Body - reviewed by Taleb Abdul Amir * Sexyrama - reviewed by Dima Sa’ad ■ From the Opposite River Bank - Samir Geryes translates Elfriede Jelinek His Body Her Body (in the alphabetical order of the writers’ names in Arabic) Iman Ibrahim Khalil Qandil Antoine Meserra Yusuf Al-Muhaymid Georges Yaraq Fawzi Yammeen Because it is also Spirit * Women in Sufi Thought - Hassan ‘Abbass * When I met Mulana in Lefka- Hajer Saleh Civilisations and Rituals The Unbearable Sweetness of the Karma Sutra - Mazin Ma’arouf Cinema * Naked Ambition: the story of Emmanuelle - Sakhr Al-Hajj Hasan * The Penis: a star of the screen - Sakhr Al-Hajj Hasan Geography of Desire Saint Denis Street- Al-Ma’ati Qabbal Health and Beauty The ABC of plucking pussy hair - Hanin Al-Ahmar Body dot com Bodypainting.com - Roula Rashed Eros in the Kitchen Figs with clove cream - Ninar Esber Adults Only Khaled Khalifa’s Body
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