Breathing in a Plague
Kurdish poet-scholar-translator Selîm Temo thinks of the young Thomas Bernhard and his infant son as he fights for life in intensive care.
Kurdish poet-scholar-translator Selîm Temo thinks of the young Thomas Bernhard and his infant son as he fights for life in intensive care.
Columnist Mara Ahmed isn't fooled by Obama's burnished spin, nor is she taken in by Kamala Harris' mixed Indian-Jamaican heritage.
Egyptian American playwright Yussef El Guindi argues it's time for American theatre to go beyond bombs and burkas when it comes to Arab/Muslim characters and storylines.
Bethlehem's epicurean chef, Fadi Kattan, talks about one of his big loves and even lets us in on his freekeh risotto recipe.
"It's impossible not to think about race in relation to the United States these days," writes Paris correspondent Monique El-Faizy in this review of Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste."
Palestinian attorney and a founder of the human rights organization Al-Haq, Raja Shehadeh takes us on a journey of memory and history, from Ramallah to Jerusalem.
In which Rewa Zeinati, the founding editor of Sukoon, lyrically describes her journey of self-discovery and fights for her identity as an Arab writing in English.
Rebecca Allamey reviews "The Limits of Whiteness" by sociologist Neda Maghbouleh, who argues that a white American immigrant group has the transformative power to become brown.
Arab/Muslim countries of the Middle East and North Africa have largely failed to fight racism and discrimination against black people. To go deeper into the DNA of Arab/Muslim racism, TMR asked Khawla Ksiksi to give an in-depth overview of the situation in Tunisia.
A candid conversation with the Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright of "Disgraced" and author of the novel "Homeland Elegies."
Melissa Chemam takes us inside the French controversy over Arabic and radical Islam.
Anne-Marie O'Connor reviews the debut novel by Nektaria Anastasiadou, set in Istanbul's venerable Rum community.
Rana Asfour reviews White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad—"an explosive book of history and cultural criticism" that argues "white feminism has been a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against black and indigenous women, and women of color."
In a search for meaning and self-adventure, writer Sarah Mills meanders through her multiple identities.
TMR's Nada Ghosn interviews Syrian author-activist Samar Yazbek in Paris following the publication of 19 Women: Syrian Women Speak.