Essays

My Berlin Triptych: On Museums and Restitution

My Berlin Triptych: On Museums and Restitution

Filmmaker and historian Viola Shafik muses on German art, colonialism and restitution in Berlin.

15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Viola Shafik
Berlin Gastronomical: A Feast of Flavors

Berlin Gastronomical: A Feast of Flavors

Author and literature professor Randa Aboubakr, who travels back and forth from Cairo to Berlin, explores the city's...

15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Randa Aboubakr
Kairo Koshary, Berlin’s Egyptian Food Truck

Kairo Koshary, Berlin’s Egyptian Food Truck

A serial entrepreneur, engineer and nomad settles in Berlin, only to start up an Egyptian food truck.

15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Mohamed Radwan
Exile, Music, Hope & Nostalgia Among Berlin’s Arab Immigrants

Exile, Music, Hope & Nostalgia Among Berlin’s Arab Immigrants

Cultural historian Diana Abbani meditates on music among Berlin's Arab immigrants.

15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Diana Abbani
Independent Algeria 60 Years Later: The Untold Story

Independent Algeria 60 Years Later: The Untold Story

Algerian critic Fouad Mami parses his nation's history and independence from France, on Algeria's 60th anniversary.

25 JULY 2022 • By Fouad Mami
Libya’s Censored Novelist, Mohammed al-Naas, Revealed

Libya’s Censored Novelist, Mohammed al-Naas, Revealed

Ghazi Gheblawi talks to young Libyan novelist Mohammed al-Naas, presently working out of Tunisia.

18 JULY 2022 • By Ghazi Gheblawi
“Disappearance/Muteness”—Tales from a Life in Translation

“Disappearance/Muteness”—Tales from a Life in Translation

A writer born into both Arabic and Hebrew linguistic traditions finds herself writing in English but longing for...

11 JULY 2022 • By Ayelet Tsabari
Sulafa Zidani: “Three Buses and the Rhythm of Remembering”

Sulafa Zidani: “Three Buses and the Rhythm of Remembering”

Riding the bus down memory lane, a Palestinian American scholar of digital culture at MIT recalls her time...

15 JUNE 2022 • By Sulafa Zidani
Barrak Alzaid: “Pink and Blue”

Barrak Alzaid: “Pink and Blue”

A young storyteller in Kuwait is captivated by the lives of Filipina women he does not know.

15 JUNE 2022 • By Barrak Alzaid
Algeria and Albert Camus

Algeria and Albert Camus

Oliver Gloag explores the conflicted Algerian and French identity of Albert Camus, reviewing his later novels, stories and...

6 JUNE 2022 • By Oliver Gloag
My Amazighitude: On the Indigenous Identity of North Africa

My Amazighitude: On the Indigenous Identity of North Africa

Brahim El Guabli explores his Amazigh roots while championing the struggle of all indigenous peoples.

6 JUNE 2022 • By Brahim El Guabli
We, Palestinian Israelis

We, Palestinian Israelis

Jenine Abboushi finds that only as Israeli citizens can Palestinians "min el-dakhil" fight for equal rights.

15 MAY 2022 • By Jenine Abboushi
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