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Category: What We’re Into

5 October, 2022 • Jordan Elgrably

44th CINEMED fest to Fête Simone Bitton & Abdellatif Kéchiche

Montpellier's venerable Mediterranean film festival announces retrospectives and avant-premières.

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24 January, 2022 • Fadi Kattan, Nevine Abraham, Ryoko Sekiguchi, Boutheina Bensalem

An Oral History of Mouloukhiya from Egypt, Palestine, Tunisia and Japan.

Four cooks from Egypt to Japan talk about their family lore and personal experience preparing mouloukhiya.

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8 November, 2021 • Marian Janssen

The Ignominy of Guantánamo: a History of Torture

Marian Janssen, biographer of a forthcoming volume on the flamboyant American poet Carolyn Kizer, reviews the new memoir by former prisoner Mansoor Adayfi.

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18 October, 2021 • A.J. Naddaff

The Anguish of Being Lebanese: Interview with Author Racha Mounaged

A.J. Naddaff   Between the Parliament and the Royal Pathway in the center of Brussels, not too far from the touristic Grand Place, there is a park with two parallel… Continue reading The Anguish of Being Lebanese: Interview with Author Racha Mounaged

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25 July, 2021 • Wafa Shami

Wafa Shami’s Palestinian Mulukhiyah

The food blogger who launched Palestine in a Dish gives us some background on the wonderful green herbalicious recipe known throughout the Arab world.

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25 July, 2021 • TMR

Summer of ‘21 Reading—Notes from the Editors

Our editors reveal their diverse literary interests, with more than a dozen recommendations for summer reading.

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25 July, 2021 • Fadi Kattan

Fadi Kattan’s Fatteh Ghazawiya الفتة الغزاوية

A Bethlehem chef reaches back to childhood to fish out a family recipe for delicious fatteh he remembers eating in Gaza.

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9 May, 2021 • Melissa Chemam

Hassan Hajjaj Rocks NYC with “My Rock Stars” and “Vogue: the Arab Issue”

One of Morocco's greatest artistic exports brings his flamboyant vision to the Yossi Milo Gallery and the Fotografiska museum.

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25 April, 2021 • Rana Asfour

Three North African Novels Dance Between Colonial & Postcolonial Worlds

BookFabulous' Rana Asfour delivers capsule reviews of three recent North African novels from Libya and Morocco.

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21 April, 2021 • Jordan Elgrably

Free Speech, Palestinian Stories and the Oscars

In anticipation of Sunday's Oscars, in which another Palestinian film has been nominated, Jordan Elgrably talks to Palestinians and Israelis about their films and activism.

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20 April, 2021 • TMR

TMR Resource Guide to Armenian Culture

The first of many new resource guides to the arts of a particular culture, in this case, Armenian. Readers are invited to contribute their own recommendations.

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28 March, 2021 • Patrick James Dunagan

“I Advance in Defeat”, the Poems of Najwan Darwish

Reviewer Patrick James Dunagan on poetry that strives to cope with the anguish of Israel's decades-long military occupation of the Palestinian people.

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