Lebanese literary genius and critic Elias Khoury started his talk at the American University in Cairo last week by analyzing Abbas Kiarostami’s film “Where is My Friend’s House” (1987). The protagonist of the Iranian film is...
“I don’t mean to say that I am more intelligent than he, or that I see things he is incapable of seeing. It may be that it is I who am incapable of understanding what interests him, though I have tried and am still trying. This is the...