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On The Anthropologists—an interview with Aysegül Savas

On The Anthropologists—an interview with Aysegül Savas

Amy Omar speaks to Ayşegül Savaş about her third novel, cinema and capturing the transitory phases of life.

JULY 26, 2024 • By Amy Omar
Excerpt from The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş

Excerpt from The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş

In her new novel, much like an anthropologist, Ayşegül Savaş explores how people live, love and set down...

JULY 26, 2024 • By Aysegul Savas
Israel’s Black Panthers by Asaf Elia-Shalev—a Review

Israel’s Black Panthers by Asaf Elia-Shalev—a Review

In the 1970s Israel's Black Panthers rocked the establishment and brought the rampant discrimation against Arab Jews to...

JULY 19, 2024 • By Ilan Benattar
Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew by Avi Shlaim—a Review

Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew by Avi Shlaim—a Review

Selma Dabbagh reviews Avi Shlaim's memoir about his coming-of-age as an Iraqi Jew, living as a minority in...

JULY 19, 2024 • By Selma Dabbagh
Morocco’s Bīylmawn Festival and the Threat of Cultural Attrition

Morocco’s Bīylmawn Festival and the Threat of Cultural Attrition

The Bīylmawn festival has recently made a comeback but not everyone is pleased with the highly stylized and...

JULY 12, 2024 • By Brahim El Guabli
World Picks from the Editors: July 15 — August 2

World Picks from the Editors: July 15 — August 2

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

JULY 12, 2024 • By TMR
Upheavals of Beauty and Oppression in The Oud Player of Cairo

Upheavals of Beauty and Oppression in The Oud Player of Cairo

Jasmin Attia's novel vividly portrays Egypt and Cairo by beautifully conjuring music and sound through descriptive prose.

JUNE 28, 2024 • By Tala Jarjour
Life Along Istanbul’s Byzantine Walls, a Review

Life Along Istanbul’s Byzantine Walls, a Review

Arie Amaya-Akkermans on a book that reviews not only Turkey’s social and political deterioration over the last decade,...

JUNE 28, 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
World Picks from the Editors: June 28 — July 15

World Picks from the Editors: June 28 — July 15

TMR editors highlight their picks of events, books, films, podcasts and other cultural products from around the globe.

JUNE 28, 2024 • By TMR
The Battle for Climate Justice vs. Environmental Orientalism

The Battle for Climate Justice vs. Environmental Orientalism

Little-reported green colonialism is occurring in the sun-rich but water-deprived MENA region, writes Richard Lim in this review.

JUNE 21, 2024 • By Richard Lim
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