Issue 3 – June 2009

Body talk | by Joumana Haddad

Voyeur’s Corner | Illustrated by Mansour Al Haber

The Body radar | Adapted by Rana Al Saifi

This Month’s Featured Themes

The Body, Addicted

- Sex addiction | Maha Hussein

- Drug addiction | Lello Voce

- Mirror addiction | Fidel Sbeity

- Plastic surgery addiction | Hanin Al-Ahmar

- Internet addiction | Yusuf Limoud

- Food addiction | Monira Abi Zeyd

Oedipus Told Me

- The secret of secrets | Muna Fayad

-  Insights into incest cases in Syria | Abiy Hasan

-  A preview of the Oedipus complex in literature | Mazen Maarouf

- An extract from L’Epi Monstre | Adapted by Antoine Jockey

My first time | Raymond Jbara

Unequivocally

- Interview with the French author and essayist, Sarane                               Alexandrian | Antoine Jockey

- An extract from “Sex Magic”  |Adapted by Rana Al Saifi

Arts

Essays

- The body; a field of exploration and a universe embracing the universe | Yusuf Limoud

- The woman as a flower | Farouk Youssef

- A painting in a body: The woman of Marguerite | Yusuf Limoud

Dance

- Omar Rajeh: Exhibition demotes the body | Mazen Maarouf

Exhibitions

- Wilhelm Freddie sticks the fork in the eye | Duna Ghali

- Japanese erotica in Paris | Al-Maati Qabbal

- Philippe Assalit and the authority of seduction | Antoine Jockey

- The bed of Tracy Emin | Yusuf Limoud

- The whores of Tehran in London | Emma Harakeh

- The nakedness of Anita in the palm of the hand | Ali Al Bazzaz

The Issue’s Focus Artist: Arezu Karoobi

Literature

Articles

- In the relation of the body and the authority | Hassan Abbas

- The image of the woman on the covers of Arabic novels | Abdulmalek Ashhaboun

Studies and Reports

- Eight attractive Arab female writers talk about their relations with their bodies.

Books

   - Tribute to “the body” of Jospeh Njeim | Akl Awit

  -  Postcards on the wings of Eros | Al-Maati Qabbal

From the Opposite River Bank

  -  Khaled Al Jubaily adapts Maurice Farhi

His Body Her Body (in alphabetical order)

            - Hassan Judi

          - Emir Al-Hussein

          - Seif Al-Rahbi

          - Youssef Rakha

          - Buthaina Suleiman

          - Alawiya Soboh

          - Georges Yaraq

Because it is Also Spirit

          - The sanctity of sex | Father Michel Sabaa

Civilizations and Rituals

          - This is how they fuck in China | Mazen Maarouf

Cinema

            -  Reflections on the era of Pornocracy | Hovik Habshian

Geography of Desire

            - Zone 4 in Abidjan | Emma Harakeh

Health and Beauty

          - The right in obesity? | Noor Al-Asaad

Body dot com

- mapplethorpe.org | Roula Rashed

Eros in the Kitchen

- Cucumbers with lemon juice | Ninar Esber

Adults Only

- The body of Jocelyne Saab