New Arabic Website on Politics and Culture To Tackle the Taboo
Two prominent Israeli-Arab literary figures yesterday launched Qadita.net, an Arabic-language politics and culture website they say will tackle issues widely considered taboo in the Arabic press.
The site’s editors are author Ala Hlehel and Anton Shalhat, a journalist and culture critic.
Hlehel said yesterday that the site is aimed at “restoring the written word as the center of content in Arabic discourse and returning cultural texts as the focus of the Arab literary, cultural, political
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