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Nabil Kanso: Lebanon and the Split of Life—a Review

Nabil Kanso: Lebanon and the Split of Life—a Review

Sophie Kazan reviews a new book on the late Nabil Kanso, the Lebanese pacifist artist whose work depicted...

2 AUGUST 2024 • By Sophie Kazan Makhlouf
On The Anthropologists—an interview with Aysegül Savas

On The Anthropologists—an interview with Aysegül Savas

Amy Omar speaks to Ayşegül Savaş about her third novel, cinema and capturing the transitory phases of life.

26 JULY 2024 • By Amy Omar
Excerpt from The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş

Excerpt from The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş

In her new novel, much like an anthropologist, Ayşegül Savaş explores how people live, love and set down...

26 JULY 2024 • By Aysegul Savas
Israel’s Black Panthers by Asaf Elia-Shalev—a Review

Israel’s Black Panthers by Asaf Elia-Shalev—a Review

In the 1970s Israel's Black Panthers rocked the establishment and brought the rampant discrimation against Arab Jews to...

19 JULY 2024 • By Ilan Benattar
Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew by Avi Shlaim—a Review

Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew by Avi Shlaim—a Review

Selma Dabbagh reviews Avi Shlaim's memoir about his coming-of-age as an Iraqi Jew, living as a minority in...

19 JULY 2024 • By Selma Dabbagh
Upheavals of Beauty and Oppression in The Oud Player of Cairo

Upheavals of Beauty and Oppression in The Oud Player of Cairo

Jasmin Attia's novel vividly portrays Egypt and Cairo by beautifully conjuring music and sound through descriptive prose.

28 JUNE 2024 • By Tala Jarjour
 
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