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30 May, 2025 • TMR

June World Picks from the Editors

Film & photography festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures, new books...TMR World Picks run the gamut...

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2 May, 2025 • Ati Metwaly

Exile and Hope: Sudanese creatives and the question of home

Sudanese artists in exile are keeping their identity and heritage alive while they await the chance to return home.

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2 May, 2025 • Gabriel Polley

Arabic Jazz and Yazz Ahmed: A Music Between Homelands

Arabic jazz challenges stereotypes amid rising xenophobia in the West and colonial violence in the Arab world.

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25 April, 2025 • TMR

May World Picks from the Editors

Film and writers’ festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures, new books, art residencies, and writing workshops.

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28 March, 2025 • TMR

April World Picks from the Editors

Film & photography festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures, new books...TMR World Picks run the gamut...

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7 March, 2025 • Malu Halasa

Love and Resistance in Online Persian Dating Shows

From blindfolding potential dates to threating them with cockroaches, Iranian YouTube dating game shows go viral and the regime takes action.

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28 February, 2025 • TMR

March World Picks from the Editors

Film & photography festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures, new books...TMR World Picks run the gamut...

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24 January, 2025 • TMR

February World Picks from the Editors

Film & photography festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures...TMR World Picks run the gamut and are selected by our editors.

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29 November, 2024 • TMR

December World Picks from the Editors

Film & photography festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures...TMR World Picks run the gamut and are selected by our editors.

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4 November, 2024 • مريم النزهي

مراجعة كتاب «إعلام الجماهير»: أشرطة الكاسيت التي استحوذت يومًا على الثقافة الشعبية في مصر

.تكتب مريم النزهي مراجعة لكتاب «إعلام الجماهير» لأندرو سايمون، يناقش الكتاب شريط الكاسيت وتأثيره وانتشاره في مصر

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11 October, 2024 • Jordan Elgrably

Aïda Nosrat of Atine: Artist at Work

Jordan Elgrably interviews free-spirited Iranian performer Aïda Nosrat on music, exile, freedom, and a passion for mixing cultures.

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4 October, 2024 • Stuart Bailie

Shamrocks & Watermelons: Palestine Politics in Belfast

Through a conflicted prism, the effect of the year-long war in Gaza on the music and politics of Northern Ireland. 

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27 September, 2024 • TMR

World Picks from the Editors: October

Film and photography festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures...TMR World Picks run the gamut and are selected by our editors.

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13 September, 2024 • Rana Asfour, Malu Halasa

Top 10 Books to Read this Fall

Editors recommend their top ten titles to read this season, from novels set in Egypt, Zanzibar, Oman and Palestine to Afghan and Syrian nonfiction.

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30 August, 2024 • Laëtitia Soula

Festival Arabesques Fetes Arab Arts for Cultural Diversity

Celebrating the 19th Rencontre des Arts du Monde Arabe, Festival Arabesques will be held from September 10 to 22, 2024, in Montpellier.

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