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Book Reviews

7 March, 2022 • Rana Asfour

A Miscarriage of Justice in the Case of Mahmood Hussain Mattan

Rana Asfour reviews the Booker Prize-nominated novel by Nadifa Mohamed based on the true story of a wrongly-convicted Somali in 1950s Cardiff.

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21 February, 2022 • Nada Ghosn

“A Tunisian Revolt” — the Rebel Power of Arab Comics

Writer-translator Nada Ghosn talks to the illustrator of a new graphic novel recounting one of Tunisia's earliest uprisings, in 1984, presaging the Jasmine Revolution.

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31 January, 2022 • El Habib Louai

Poetic Justice: 70+ Contemporary Poets of Morocco

Amazigh Moroccan poet El Habib Louai reviews a recent anthology that has warmed the hearts of English-reading Moroccans during the pandemic.

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31 January, 2022 • Mehnaz Afridi

Hananah Zaheer’s “Lovebirds”? Don’t Be Fooled by the Title

Mehnaz Afridi reviews the new book of short stories by a Pakistani American writer determined to disrupt her readers' expectations.

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24 January, 2022 • Justin Stearns

Arabic and Latin, Cosmopolitan Languages of the Premodern Mediterranean and its Hinterlands

Justin Stearns, a scholar of the pre-modern Muslim Middle East, reviews the new book by Karla Mallette on the fascinating history of two of the world's great languages.

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15 January, 2022 • Rana Asfour

Meditations on The Ungrateful Refugee

Rana Asfour shares her thoughts on the widely-celebrated book from Dina Nayeri, who writes that escaping and becoming a refugee preoccupied her life for more than 20 years.

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10 January, 2022 • Gilbert Achcar

Gaza Melancholic

Author and SOAS professor Gilbert Achcar reviews the latest book from Gaza scholar Sara Roy.

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10 January, 2022 • Rana Asfour

Temptations of the Imagination: how Jana Elhassan and Samar Yazbek transmogrify the world

Rana Asfour provides an intimate look at two new Arab novels in translation, from Lebanese and Syrian authors.

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13 December, 2021 • Jordan Elgrably

Recovering/Remembering Love, Sex and Trauma

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi follows her novels "Fra Keeler" and "Call Me Zebra" with a story set in Andalucia.

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29 November, 2021 • Rana Asfour

From Jerusalem to a Kingdom by the Sea

Rana Asfour reviews a new memoir about the legendary Dajani family, charged by a Turkish sultan with watching over King David's Tomb in Jerusalem, but exiled in 1948.

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22 November, 2021 • Rana Asfour

Three Banned Saudi Novels Everyone Should Read

Despite its repressive regimes, Saudi Arabia has produced a number of world-class novelists — several of whom have seen their best work banned. Rana Asfour reviews three in English translation.

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15 November, 2021 • A.J. Naddaff

Diary of the Collapse—Charif Majdalani on Lebanon’s Trials by Fire

A.J. Naddaff reviews the latest work of creative nonfiction by Lebanon's Charif Majdalani, as his nation teeters on the edge of the abyss.

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15 November, 2021 • Hadani Ditmars

The Vanishing: Are Arab Christians an Endangered Minority?

Hadani Ditmars reviews Janine di Giovanni's ambitious new travelogue on beleaguered Christian communities in Iraq, Gaza, Syria, and Egypt.

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8 November, 2021 • Marian Janssen

The Ignominy of Guantánamo: a History of Torture

Marian Janssen, biographer of a forthcoming volume on the flamboyant American poet Carolyn Kizer, reviews the new memoir by former prisoner Mansoor Adayfi.

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18 October, 2021 • A.J. Naddaff

Racha Mounaged’s Debut Novel Captures Trauma of Lebanese Civil War

From time to time, TMR reviews recent titles published in other languages, to give readers insight before they become available in English.   A.J. Naddaff   One of the most… Continue reading Racha Mounaged’s Debut Novel Captures Trauma of Lebanese Civil War

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