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Exile, Music, Hope & Nostalgia Among Berlin’s Arab Immigrants

Exile, Music, Hope & Nostalgia Among Berlin’s Arab Immigrants

Cultural historian Diana Abbani meditates on music among Berlin's Arab immigrants.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 • By Diana Abbani
Hawra Al-Nadawi: “Tuesday and the Green Movement”

Hawra Al-Nadawi: “Tuesday and the Green Movement”

Translator Alice Guthrie shares a preview of Al-Nadawi's exquisite 2017 novel "Qismet," a Kurdish story set in Iraq...

JUNE 15, 2022 • By Hawra Al-Nadawi
Film Review: Maysoon Pachachi’s “Our River…Our Sky” in Iraq

Film Review: Maysoon Pachachi’s “Our River…Our Sky” in Iraq

Nadje Al-Ali finds that Maysoon Pachachi’s film reflects her "long-standing commitment to highlight experiences of ordinary Iraqis, especially...

MAY 30, 2022 • By Nadje Al-Ali
Baghdad Art Scene Springs to Life as Iraq Seeks Renewal

Baghdad Art Scene Springs to Life as Iraq Seeks Renewal

Hadani Ditmars, fresh from a return trip to Iraq, surveys the burgeoning plastic arts scene.

MAY 23, 2022 • By Hadani Ditmars
Conversations on Food and Race with Andy Shallal

Conversations on Food and Race with Andy Shallal

Washington DC's artist-entrepreneur-philanthropist (and one-time mayoral candidate) Andy Shallal dishes on matters of hunger and racism.

APRIL 15, 2022 • By Jordan Elgrably
Abū Ḥamza’s Bread

Abū Ḥamza’s Bread

In which Philip Grant muses on Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq’s tenth century cookbook, "Kitāb aṭ-Ṭabīkh" and cooking and baking...

APRIL 15, 2022 • By Philip Grant
Artist Hayv Kahraman’s “Gut Feelings” Exhibition Reviewed

Artist Hayv Kahraman’s “Gut Feelings” Exhibition Reviewed

Melissa Chemam is swept away by an Iraqi American artist's latest exhibit at Mosaic Rooms in London.

MARCH 28, 2022 • By Melissa Chemam
Silver Stories from Artist Micaela Amateau Amato

Silver Stories from Artist Micaela Amateau Amato

Artist and writer Micaela Amateau Amato uses art and words to create unique ways of transmogrifying the world.

FEBRUARY 15, 2022 • By Hisham Bustani
(G)Hosting the Past: On Michael Rakowitz’s “Reapparitions”

(G)Hosting the Past: On Michael Rakowitz’s “Reapparitions”

Arie Akkermans reviews an Iraqi American's exhibitions as they attempt to recreate missing and destroyed artifacts taken from...

FEBRUARY 7, 2022 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Afghanistan Falls to the Taliban

Afghanistan Falls to the Taliban

On the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, Hadani Ditmars remembers the treasures and the ruins of Afghanistan...

AUGUST 16, 2021 • By Mohja Kahf
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