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AMMAN — Iraqi artist Mohammad Muhraddin’s innovative compositions currently on display at the Orfali Art Gallery mix photographs with abstract forms. In twenty-five paintings, Muhraddin blends pain with joy, the basis of his art works. The pieces are characterised by the artist’s abstract experimentation with color and composition showing parts of the human form. Some […]

Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Germany’s most prominent literary critic, was awarded the Goethe Prize this week for his contributions to postwar German literature. The prize, given every few years on Aug. 28, the poet’s birthday, was previously bestowed on German-speaking intellectual icons like Thomas Mann and Sigmund Freud. For Mr. Reich-Ranicki, 82, a Polish-born Holocaust survivor, the

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Jack Chapman is not your everyday pimp. For one thing, he lives with his wife, Sara, and their daughter, Rivkele, in an apartment above his Lower East Side brothel. Jack also wants respect, and not just on the street. Jack wants a seat in the synagogue, the blessings of the rabbi and

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — In a digitally animated film entitled The Cathedral, a man stumbles across a dreary landscape into a dark, ominous building. A brilliant flash of light fills the cavernous space, and branches shoot up, extending the structure high in the sky and seemingly strangling the man in the process. The entry from