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A new series in France, Raï Is Not Dead, Celebrates the Genre

A new series in France, Raï Is Not Dead, Celebrates the Genre

Melissa Chemam attends the première of the new French music series on Arte TV at the Institut du...

20 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Melissa Chemam
Karim Goury’s 10 Gems of World Cinema 2022

Karim Goury’s 10 Gems of World Cinema 2022

Filmmaker and critic Karim Goury remembers 10 films of 2022 from around the world.

26 DECEMBER 2022 • By Karim Goury
Fida Jiryis on Palestine in Stranger in My Own Land

Fida Jiryis on Palestine in Stranger in My Own Land

Diana Buttu, a Palestinian lawyer in Haifa, reviews the family memoir that evokes nearly a century of Palestinian...

28 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Diana Buttu
Football in the Middle East: State, Society, and the Beautiful Game

Football in the Middle East: State, Society, and the Beautiful Game

Justin Olivier Salhani reviews a new anthology on football and the Middle East just as the World Cup...

21 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Abir Kopty
Why Muslim Palestinian “Mo” Preferred Catholic Confession to Therapy

Why Muslim Palestinian “Mo” Preferred Catholic Confession to Therapy

As a Muslim American and scholar of Islam, Sarah Eltantawi finds the new series from Mo Amer and...

7 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Sarah Eltantawi
The Art of Translation is Akin to “Dancing on Ropes”

The Art of Translation is Akin to “Dancing on Ropes”

Deborah Kapchan reviews the new book on translation from Anna Aslanyan.

10 OCTOBER 2022 • By Nawal Qasim Baidoun
Marrakesh Artist Mo Baala Returns to Galerie 127 with Collage

Marrakesh Artist Mo Baala Returns to Galerie 127 with Collage

El Habib Louai talks to artist Mo Baala about his latest exhibition of collages and overpaintings at Marrakesh's...

3 OCTOBER 2022 • By Mark LeVine
Editorial: Is the World Driving Us Mad?

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...

15 JULY 2022 • By TMR
Big Laleh, Little Laleh—memoir by 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...

15 JULY 2022 • By Asmaa Azaizeh
“The Devil’s Waiting List”—a story by 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...

15 JULY 2022 • By Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi
Where to Now, Ya Asfoura?—a story by 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...

15 JULY 2022 • By Sarah AlKahly-Mills
Poetry as a Form of Madness—Review of a Friendship

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...

15 JULY 2022 • By Laila Halaby
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