Interviews

Soudade Kaadan: Filmmaker Interview

Soudade Kaadan: Filmmaker Interview

Syrian filmmaker Soudade Kaadan is a jury member of the 81st Venice Film Festival, and the only Arab woman...

30 AUGUST 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
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
Deena Mohamed

Deena Mohamed

Featured artist Deena Mohamed is an accomplished Egyptian graphic novelist and author of the fantasy trilogy "Shubeik Lubeik"...

5 JULY 2024 • By Katie Logan
Nothing is Normal, Nothing Is What it Seems (Underground Theatre in Iran After the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement)

Nothing is Normal, Nothing Is What it Seems (Underground Theatre in Iran After the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement)

An interview with an actress performing on stage in Iran without a hijab and who is no longer...

7 JUNE 2024 • By Mehrnaz Daneshvar
Magyd Cherfi’s French Journey, from Musical Stardom to Novelist

Magyd Cherfi’s French Journey, from Musical Stardom to Novelist

The Franco-Algerian star of Zebda, a major pop band 1985-2015, has become a writer to reckon with, in...

18 APRIL 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
The Body, Intimacy and Technology in the Middle East

The Body, Intimacy and Technology in the Middle East

Six women artists and curator Nadine Khalil explore women's bodies in a Dubai exhibition, in an interview by...

4 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Naima Morelli
My Love for Derna: Interview with Libyan Writer Mahbuba Khalifa

My Love for Derna: Interview with Libyan Writer Mahbuba Khalifa

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

13 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Naima Morelli
Waking Up To My Distorted City—an Interview with Hisham Bustani & Linda Al Khoury

Waking Up To My Distorted City—an Interview with Hisham Bustani & Linda Al Khoury

Hisham Bustani and Linda Al Khoury talk to TMR about their new bilingual book and the urban distortions...

5 NOVEMBER 2023 • By TMR
Illegitimate Literature—Interview with Novelist Ebru Ojen

Illegitimate Literature—Interview with Novelist Ebru Ojen

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

18 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By Nazlı Koca
Musical Artists at Work: Naïssam Jalal, Fazil Say & Azu Tiwaline

Musical Artists at Work: Naïssam Jalal, Fazil Say & Azu Tiwaline

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

17 JULY 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
Artist at Work: Syrian Filmmaker Afraa Batous

Artist at Work: Syrian Filmmaker Afraa Batous

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

26 JUNE 2023 • By Dima Hamdan
Garden of Africa: Interview with Rachid Koraïchi

Garden of Africa: Interview with Rachid Koraïchi

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

4 JUNE 2023 • By Rose Issa
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