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Malu Halasa

Malu Halasa is a London-based writer and editor. Her six co-edited anthologies include—Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline, with Zaher Omareen; The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie: Intimacy and Design, with Rana Salam; and the short series: Transit Beirut, with Rosanne Khalaf, and Transit Tehran, with Maziar Bahari. She was managing editor of the Prince Claus Fund Library; a founding editor of Tank Magazine and Editor at Large for Portal 9. As a former freelance journalist in the London, she covered wide-ranging subjects, from water as occupation in Israel/Palestine to Syrian comics during the present-day conflict. Her books, exhibitions and lectures chart a changing Middle East. Malu Halasa’s debut novel, Mother of All Pigs was reviewed by the New York Times as “a microcosmic portrait of … a patriarchal order in slow-motion decline.”

15 March, 2022 • Malu Halasa

Chewing Viagra Gum, the Audio Version!

Malu Halasa performs Mai Ghoussoub's groundbreaking essay, "Chewing Viagra Gum."

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15 March, 2022 • Malu Halasa

No Sex Please, We’re Syrian: on Syrian Sexual Humor During War

A frank look at the changing social attitudes toward sexuality in war-torn Syria.

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30 May, 2021 • Malu Halasa

Arab Women and The Thousand and One Nights

Malu Halasa reviews a new anthology of Arab women writers on sex, love and lust, including "the leading lights of modern Arab fiction: Hanan al-Shaykh, Adhaf Soueif, Leila Slimani and Adania Shibli."

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14 May, 2021 • Malu Halasa

Beautiful/Ugly: Against Aestheticizing Israel’s Separation Wall

Malu Halasa revisits the question of whether walls, borders and barriers should ever be dressed up to disguise their true intent.

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18 April, 2021 • Malu Halasa

World Picks: April — May 2021

Travel the world, meet people, see great places, without ever leaving the comfort of your screen…welcome to the pandemic!

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14 March, 2021 • Malu Halasa

The Crash, Covid-19 and Other Iranian Stories

Malu Halasa reviews the new graphic novel by former political prisoner and editorial cartoonist Mana Neyestani, released in 2021 by IranWire.com.

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14 February, 2021 • Malu Halasa

Revolution in Art, a review of “Reflections” at the British Museum

Malu Halasa reviews a selection of the 170 Arab, Iranian and Turkish artists and artworks in the British Museum's contemporary Middle East collection.

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19 October, 2020 • Malu Halasa

New Art, Film, Fashion, Music & Palestine Writes

The pandemic is here to stay a while but arts and culture are alive and well, with fresh world picks from Malu Halasa.

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15 October, 2020 • Malu Halasa

Arabs & Race in America through the Short Story Prism

The best writing in "Alligator & Other Stories" starts a different conversation about Arab belonging and assimilation in America, through the prism of Syrian experience.

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28 September, 2020 • Malu Halasa

World Art, Music & Zoom Beat the Pandemic Blues

Mala Halasa curates art, music, parks and politix from London…

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