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The Imagination Interviews

29 November, 2021 • Rana Asfour

From Jerusalem to a Kingdom by the Sea

Rana Asfour reviews a new memoir about the legendary Dajani family, charged by a Turkish sultan with watching over King David's Tomb in Jerusalem, but exiled in 1948.

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29 November, 2021 • Rana Haddad

Syria Through British Eyes

British-Syrian novelist Rana Haddad compares her experience growing up in Syria with the way people beyond Syria's borders see her country.

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22 November, 2021 • C. Michael Johnson

Surviving the Rittenhouse Verdict

C. Michael Johnson responds to news of the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict. TMR invites readers to respond to the major issues of our times, from climate change to criminal justice, human rights and liberation from all forms of oppression.

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22 November, 2021 • Rana Asfour

Three Banned Saudi Novels Everyone Should Read

Despite its repressive regimes, Saudi Arabia has produced a number of world-class novelists — several of whom have seen their best work banned. Rana Asfour reviews three in English translation.

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22 November, 2021 • Melissa Chemam

Electronic Music in Riyadh?

Music journalist Melissa Chemam turns in the first column as part of a new monthly series in which she'll explore icons of Arab music and how they influence music production around the world.

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22 November, 2021 • TMR

Hayy Jameel — Jeddah’s Sparkling New Center for the Arts

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is home to a major new arts and cultural center, opening to the public on December 6, 2021.

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22 November, 2021 • Deborah Williams

Traveling in Contentious Spaces — Saudi Arabia

When friends in Abu Dhabi asked Deborah Williams how she could support MBS by going to “his” festival, she didn’t have an answer, only another question: how do we draw the lines around where we will or won’t go?

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22 November, 2021 • Waqar Ahmed

The Promotion (a short story from Saudi Arabia)

What happens when an immigrant professor dresses to impress in a bid to land tenure at a Saudi university? A short story by Waqar Ahmed paints a humorous picture.

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19 November, 2021 • Arie Amaya-Akkermans

Etel Adnan’s Sun and Sea: In Remembrance

Art critic Arie Amaya-Akkermans summons the gods of art and poetry as he reviews the life work of the late polymath Etel Adnan, 1925-2021.

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15 November, 2021 • Hadani Ditmars

Burning Forests, Burning Nations

Columnist Hadani Ditmars recounts meeting strangers at the beach during fire season in British Columbia and finds Syria and Turkey are shared homelands.

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15 November, 2021 • Tariq Mehmood

“The Settlement”—a story by Tariq Mehmood

From Tariq Mehmood comes an allegorical story with the strange beauty and simplicity of a tale by Ghassan Kanafani or J.M. Coetzee.

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15 November, 2021 • Omar El Akkad

Climate Disasters Hasten the Advent of a World Refugee Crisis

Novelist Omar El Akkad ("What Strange Paradise", "American War") warns that wildfires and other climate disasters are creating the conditions for a global refugee crisis the world is not prepared for.

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15 November, 2021 • Basil Al-Adraa

Killing Olive Trees Fails to Push Palestinians Out

Olive trees are majestic, they are the source of many livelihoods throughout Palestine, and they have too often been slashed and torched by Israeli settlers. Olive trees should never be pawns in a political supremacy game. Basil al-Adraa reports.

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15 November, 2021 • TMR

FIRE: An Abbreviated Reading List

Here are a few staff picks in a very short list that could benefit from having us add your own fire-related titles. Come on, light our fire.

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15 November, 2021 • Munir Atalla

Alchemy and the Deaf Blacksmith of Amman

Munir Atalla, the Brooklyn-based writer-director, recounts the story of a rather unusually happy, earnest man with a handicap and a skill.

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