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Category: Essays

15 September, 2022 • Rasha Abbas, Katharine Halls

The Intruders and the City

Rasha Abbas, a Syrian writer who ventures into the surreal, examines her conflicted relationship with Berlin.

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15 September, 2022 • Randa Aboubakr

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 Arab offerings.

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15 September, 2022 • Mohamed Radwan

Kairo Koshary, Berlin’s Egyptian Food Truck

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

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15 September, 2022 • Diana Abbani

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

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

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25 July, 2022 • Fouad Mami

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.

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18 July, 2022 • Ghazi Gheblawi

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

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

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11 July, 2022 • Ayelet Tsabari

“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 Arabic.

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15 June, 2022 • Sulafa Zidani

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 in Jerusalem and Haifa.

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15 June, 2022 • Barrak Alzaid

Barrak Alzaid: “Pink and Blue”

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

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6 June, 2022 • Oliver Gloag

Algeria and Albert Camus

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

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6 June, 2022 • Brahim El Guabli

My Amazighitude: On the Indigenous Identity of North Africa

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

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15 May, 2022 • Jenine Abboushi

We, Palestinian Israelis

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

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