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Reviving the Nay Tradition in Jordan

Reviving the Nay Tradition in Jordan

Jordanian Rabee’ Zureikat is on a mission to restore severed links to the Arab past by reviving a...

JULY 10, 2023 • By Reem Halasa
Neither Explosions Nor Inflation Have Sunk Beirut’s Bookshops

Neither Explosions Nor Inflation Have Sunk Beirut’s Bookshops

Books continue to be a mainstay in Beirut, although bookshops are resorting to survival strategies.

JULY 10, 2023 • By Justin Olivier Salhani
Musings on a Major Exhibition: Women Defining Women at LACMA

Musings on a Major Exhibition: Women Defining Women at LACMA

Philip Grant took a look at a vast Los Angeles art exhibition that presents 75 independent Arab and...

JUNE 26, 2023 • By Philip Grant
Queer Khaleejis and Western Biases—Individual Freedom at Stake

Queer Khaleejis and Western Biases—Individual Freedom at Stake

Christina Paschyn talks to queer activists in the Gulf who challenge the Western narrative on oppression and freedom...

JUNE 26, 2023 • By Christina Paschyn
Artist at Work: Syrian Filmmaker Afraa Batous

Artist at Work: Syrian Filmmaker Afraa Batous

Journalist and filmmaker Dima Hamdan talks to the young Syrian director of the documentary "All Roads Lead to...

JUNE 26, 2023 • By Dima Hamdan
Freedom and Dislocation in Jamal Mahjoub’s Novel, The Fugitives

Freedom and Dislocation in Jamal Mahjoub’s Novel, The Fugitives

David Rife reviews the latest fiction from the Sudanese British author of more than a dozen literary and...

JUNE 26, 2023 • By David Rife
The Ghost of Gezi Park—Turkey 10 Years On

The Ghost of Gezi Park—Turkey 10 Years On

An art critic comments on the 10th anniversary of the Gezi Park protests with an overview of a...

JUNE 19, 2023 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Deniz Goran’s New Novel Contrasts Art and the Gezi Park Protests

Deniz Goran’s New Novel Contrasts Art and the Gezi Park Protests

A novel about "toxic authoritarianism" and how it has shaped the lives of countless young persons in Turkey,...

JUNE 19, 2023 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
The Rite of Flooding: When the Land Speaks

The Rite of Flooding: When the Land Speaks

A walk through London’s Hackney Marshes calls forth stories of Gaza, the Nile, the Sindhu River and the...

JUNE 19, 2023 • By Bint Mbareh
Youssef Rakha Practices Literary Deception in Emissaries

Youssef Rakha Practices Literary Deception in Emissaries

Zein El-Amine reviews the first collection of "original, irreverent" short stories written in English by Egyptian writer Youssef...

JUNE 19, 2023 • By Zein El-Amine
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