Philip Wilson Steer Biddy Jenkinson

Philip Wilson Steer Biddy JenkinsonPhilip Wilson Steer (1860 1942) spent his childhood and youth at Whitchurch near Ross on Wye, just three miles from the English Welsh border, and studied at the Gloucester College of Art. He was at the centre of much controversy in the British art world at the end of the nineteenth century and was a prime mover in the adoption of French Impressionist techniques during that period. Although much criticised for this role, Steer taught at the Slade for

Whether the object of contemplation be a vanished Dublin bookshop

this book presents a significant overview of the drama of our era

INTERVIEW with Mohamed Choukri

Mona Abdulkader al-Ali – A short story

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Khan al-Khalili by Naguib Mahfouz

that hot day in July

deftly articulated

An adjutant stooped as he grieved

Georg Bühren

a section is devoted to Duke Ellington

Tender and witty love poems coexist with brief narratives and satirical sketches