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Latest Reviews

15 Jul 2022 • TMR

Editorial: Is the World Driving Us Mad?

The world may be driving us crazy, but sharing our stories across cultures and borders is one way to hang on to our sanity.

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15 Jul 2022 • Shokouh Moghimi

Big Laleh, Little Laleh—memoir by Shokouh Moghimi

Who knows what drives anyone mad? For a sister who loves her big sister and emulates her, the mystery will perhaps never be resolved.

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15 Jul 2022 • Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi

The Devil’s Waiting List—a story by Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi

A solitary bachelor, seeking success as a writer, wonders what he has to do in contemporary Cairo to get ahead.

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15 Jul 2022 • Sarah AlKahly-Mills

Where to Now, Ya Asfoura?—a story by Sarah AlKahly-Mills

You can run from grief and death until you lose your mind, but life is reserved for those who fight for it.

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15 Jul 2022 • Youssef Rakha

Poetry as a Form of Madness—Review of a Friendship

Youssef Rahka introduces us to his Egyptian friend Maged Zaher and his seventh volume of poetry, composed in English.

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15 Jul 2022 • Ani Zonneveld

American Theocracy and Failed States

Ani Zonneveld, leader of a progressive Muslim organization, argues that the United States is sliding perilously toward theocracy.

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15 Jul 2022 • Mischa Geracoulis

Tunisians On the Couch in “Arab Blues”

Mischa Geracoulis reviews the film in which a Paris-trained shrink analyzes fellow Tunisians suffering from mental maladies.

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15 Jul 2022 • Shahd Alshammari

Women and Literary Madness

Shahd Alshammari, a scholar of illness and disability, has written an extended study of literary madness.

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15 Jul 2022 • Farah Abdessamad

War and Trauma in Yemen: Asim Abdulaziz’s “1941”

Farah Abdessamad considers generations of survivors in Yemen's first experimental film.

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15 Jul 2022 • Youssef Manessa

Lebanon in a Loop: A Retrospective of “Waves ‘98”

Youssef Manessa reviews a short film from Ely Dagher that speaks to his generation of Lebanese born in the '90s.

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15 Jul 2022 • Tugrul Mende

Between Illness and Exile in “Head Above Water”

Tugrul Mende reviews Shadh Alshammari's brave account of fighting MS and abelism.

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15 Jun 2022 • Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi: “Asha and Haaji”

The author of the story collection "Love in a Blue Time" and the novels "Intimacy" and "The Last Word" weaves a dystopian tale of love and literature.

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