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29 November 2025 • 18:00 - 19:30

Gazette Café

An Evening of Poetry & Prose

Join us for an evening of poetry and prose at the Gazette Café

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Past events

Iraq, 20 Years After the War, From the Viewpoint of Its Creatives

RSVP now Iraq, 20 years after the War, Thursday, 2 March, 18:00 CET (12 noon ET/17:00 UK/19:00 Beirut/21:00 Abu Dhabi).  Several participants in this month’s issue on IRAQ will gather […]

2 March 2023 • 18:00 - 19:00

Négar Djavadi’s Disoriental, Sunday, Feb. 26, 12 noon Eastern

“Our memories select, eliminate, exaggerate, minimize, glorify, denigrate. They create their own versions of events and serve up their own reality.” —Négar Djavadi

26 February 2023 • 12:00 - 13:00

We Read/Discuss Out of Mesopotamia, the novel by Salar Abdoh, and Meet the Author

THE JANUARY BOOKGROUP SELECTION IS is Out of Mesopotamia, by Salar Abdoh (no bookgroup meeting in December). The discussion takes place, with the author, on Sunday, January 29, 2023, 1 pm […]

29 January 2023 • 13:00 - 14:00

Nov 2022 BookGroup Selection is “I Will Never See the World Again” by Ahmet Altan

Ahmet Altan, one of Turkey's best-known novelists was locked up in prison, the key thrown away.

1 January 1970 • 00:00 - 00:00

TMR Bookgroup Discusses “The Last White Man” by Mohsin Hamid

The Guardian calls Mohsin Hamid’s new novel “a hypnotic race fable,” in which “as white people suddenly awake in brown skin, they are forced to confront uncomfortable truths about power […]

30 October 2022 • 13:00 - 14:00

TMR Bookgroup Discusses Mai Al-Nakib’s “An Unlasting Home” with the author

When you live in a conservative society, you run the risk of censure. How far should a philosophy professor stick her neck out to make a point? Would you put it all […]

1 January 1970 • 00:00 - 00:00

TMR Bookgroup Discusses “The Handsome Jew” by Ali Al-Muqri

The Handsome Jew is a challenging and provocative novel that urges/ invites Muslims and Jews to contemplate themselves and the way they see the other through a doomed love story. This […]

28 August 2022 • 13:00 - 14:00

TMR Bookgroup discusses the stories of Ayelet Tsabari

Join the TMR Bookgroup when we discuss Ayelet Tsabari's short stories.

1 January 1970 • 00:00 - 00:00
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