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Electronic Music in Riyadh?

Electronic Music in Riyadh?

Music journalist Melissa Chemam turns in the first column as part of a new monthly series in which...

NOVEMBER 22, 2021 • By Melissa Chemam
Etel Adnan’s Sun and Sea: In Remembrance

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...

NOVEMBER 19, 2021 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Diary of the Collapse—Charif Majdalani on Lebanon’s Trials by Fire

Diary of the Collapse—Charif Majdalani on Lebanon’s Trials by Fire

A.J. Naddaff reviews the latest work of creative nonfiction by Lebanon's Charif Majdalani, as his nation teeters on...

NOVEMBER 15, 2021 • By A.J. Naddaff
The Anguish of Being Lebanese: Interview with Author Racha Mounaged

The Anguish of Being Lebanese: Interview with Author Racha Mounaged

A.J. Naddaff   Between the Parliament and the Royal Pathway in the center of Brussels, not too far...

OCTOBER 18, 2021 • By A.J. Naddaff
Racha Mounaged’s Debut Novel Captures Trauma of Lebanese Civil War

Racha Mounaged’s Debut Novel Captures Trauma of Lebanese Civil War

From time to time, TMR reviews recent titles published in other languages, to give readers insight before they...

OCTOBER 18, 2021 • By A.J. Naddaff
Displaced: From Beirut to Los Angeles to Beirut

Displaced: From Beirut to Los Angeles to Beirut

Ara Oshagan I am walking along the narrow and labyrinthine Armenian neighborhoods of Bourj Hammoud in Beirut—spaces with...

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021 • By Ara Oshagan
Beirut Drag Queens Lead the Way for Arab LGBTQ+ Visibility

Beirut Drag Queens Lead the Way for Arab LGBTQ+ Visibility

Moustafa Daly talks to leaders in Lebanon’s creative and LBGTQ community about the drag queen scene.

AUGUST 8, 2021 • By Wafa Shami
Gaza’s Shababek Gallery for Contemporary Art

Gaza’s Shababek Gallery for Contemporary Art

Yara Chaalan looks into the Shababek Gallery for Contemporary Art in Gaza and profiles a few younger, emerging...

JULY 14, 2021 • By Norman G. Finkelstein
The Semantics of Gaza, War and Truth

The Semantics of Gaza, War and Truth

Mischa Geracoulis joins filmmaker Yung Chang and the late muckraker Robert Fisk in asking us to think about...

JULY 14, 2021 • By Alia Mossallam
Lebanon’s Wasta Has Contributed to the Country’s Collapse

Lebanon’s Wasta Has Contributed to the Country’s Collapse

Novelist Samir El-Youssef recalls adolescent challenges and more recent experience where wasta was a necessity.

JUNE 14, 2021 • By Tariq Mehmood
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