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Poetic Justice: 70+ Contemporary Poets of Morocco

Poetic Justice: 70+ Contemporary Poets of Morocco

Amazigh Moroccan poet El Habib Louai reviews a recent anthology that has warmed the hearts of English-reading Moroccans...

JANUARY 31, 2022 • By El Habib Louai
Hananah Zaheer’s “Lovebirds”? Don’t Be Fooled by the Title

Hananah Zaheer’s “Lovebirds”? Don’t Be Fooled by the Title

Mehnaz Afridi reviews the new book of short stories by a Pakistani American writer determined to disrupt her...

JANUARY 31, 2022 • By Lorraine Ali
Arabic and Latin, Cosmopolitan Languages of the Premodern Mediterranean and its Hinterlands

Arabic and Latin, Cosmopolitan Languages of the Premodern Mediterranean and its Hinterlands

Justin Stearns, a scholar of the pre-modern Muslim Middle East, reviews the new book by Karla Mallette on...

JANUARY 24, 2022 • By Nouha Homad
Mapping an Escape from Cairo’s Hyperreality through informal Instagram archives

Mapping an Escape from Cairo’s Hyperreality through informal Instagram archives

Even as the despotic rulers of post-revolution Egypt attempt to remake greater Cairo, hoping to gloss over the...

JANUARY 24, 2022 • By Yahia Dabbous
Rachid Taha and the Sway of Chaabi & Raï on Franco-Arab Rock

Rachid Taha and the Sway of Chaabi & Raï on Franco-Arab Rock

This month, TMR's music critic, Melissa Chemam, stumbles upon an unexpected exhibit of the history and influence of...

JANUARY 24, 2022 • By Melissa Chemam
An Oral History of Mouloukhiya from Egypt, Palestine, Tunisia and Japan

An Oral History of Mouloukhiya from Egypt, Palestine, Tunisia and Japan

Four cooks from Egypt to Japan talk about their family lore and personal experience preparing mouloukhiya.

JANUARY 24, 2022 • By Fadi Kattan
Gaza Melancholic

Gaza Melancholic

Author and SOAS professor Gilbert Achcar reviews the latest book from Gaza scholar Sara Roy.

JANUARY 10, 2022 • By Basil Al-Adraa
Temptations of the Imagination: how Jana Elhassan and Samar Yazbek transmogrify the world

Temptations of the Imagination: how Jana Elhassan and Samar Yazbek transmogrify the world

Rana Asfour provides an intimate look at two new Arab novels in translation, from Lebanese and Syrian authors.

JANUARY 10, 2022 • By TMR
America’s Freedom Hinges on the Survival of its Democracy

America’s Freedom Hinges on the Survival of its Democracy

I. Rida Mahmood calls out the double standards of Republicans and Supreme Court conservatives who argued that no...

JANUARY 3, 2022 • By Maece Seirafi
January 6th and the Free Fall of Democracy.

January 6th and the Free Fall of Democracy.

An American expat demonstrates how distance helps one see one's country more clearly, as he laments how far...

JANUARY 3, 2022 • By Munir Atalla
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