Unshackling Language in Arabic Children’s Literature
A children’s book publisher in the Middle East makes the case for teaching children to read in their mother tongues.
A children’s book publisher in the Middle East makes the case for teaching children to read in their mother tongues.
Poet and writer Ahmad Almallah grew up in Bethlehem and presently makes his home in Philadelphia.
Translator Kareem Abu-Zeid talks about the recent New Directions volume of the translated poems of Syrian maestro Adonis.
The largest festival of Arab and North African music takes place each year in Montpellier: Arabesques is quite the two-week extravaganza.
What happens when public universities begin shutting down entire area studies departments, and learning foreign languages becomes a luxury?
Jordanian Rabee’ Zureikat is on a mission to restore severed links to the Arab past by reviving a musical heritage, one nay at a time.
In Rawand Issa's "Inside the Giant Fish," a girl looks for her lost memories on a beach that no longer exists.
In a dystopian world, thanks to AI, people no longer die because they can be upgraded to better and more functional forms.
London-based Iraqi playwright Hassan Abdulrazak enthuses on the 2023 Shubbak theatre arts extravaganza, June 23-July 9.
Doha-based filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani profiles prolific DFI veteran film prof Rithy Panh.
In her latest music column for TMR, Melissa Chemam profiles the genre-defying Tunisian electro artist Ghoula.
Katie Logan reviews the much-anticipated English version of the Egyptian graphic novel, a tour de force.