Interviews Archives

13 November, 2023 • Naima Morelli

A Libyan writer from Derna laments the floods that came not long after she devoted a short story collection to her hometown.

5 November, 2023 • TMR

Hisham Bustani and Linda Al Khoury talk to TMR about their new bilingual book and the urban distortions they bear witness to in Amman, Jordan.

18 September, 2023 • Nazlı Koca

Nazlı Koca interviews novelist Ebru Ojen and her translators on the creative process of bringing her latest book into English.

17 July, 2023 • Sarah Naili

Sarah Naili interviews musical artists who meld eastern and western instruments, and forms, to create their unique sounds of beauty.

26 June, 2023 • Dima Hamdan

Journalist and filmmaker Dima Hamdan talks to the young Syrian director of the documentary "All Roads Lead to More."

4 June, 2023 • Rose Issa

Rose Issa talks to the Algerian artist about his Garden of Africa and other garden projects that honor the history and memories of the dead.

22 May, 2023 • Melissa Chemam

Melissa Chemam interviews the French-Algerian novelist Faïza Guène on the publication of her novel Discretion in English translation.

1 May, 2023 • Jordan Elgrably

Jordan Elgrably interviews the Algerian-French iconoclast about her first album after Covid and about why she's devoted her life to freedom.

10 April, 2023 • Malu Halasa

Malu Halasa talks to the director of a new documentary exposing the cruelty of Iran's Islamic regime.

27 March, 2023 • Sarah Ben Hamadi

Our correspondent in Tunis, Sarah Ben Hamadi, interviews Yamen Menaï, one of Tunisia's best-selling young novelists.

20 March, 2023 • Karim Goury

Karim Goury talks to the director of the new feature film on war, love and borders, Tel Aviv-Beirut.

Sparks fly when two UK-based Iraqi diaspora playwrights discuss how the art of theatre addresses Iraqi pain with both comedy and drama.

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