Tel Aviv-Beirut, a Film on War, Love & Borders
Franco-Egyptian filmmaker Karim Goury reviews the new feature film from Franco-Israeli director Michael Boganim.
Interview with Michale Boganim, Director of Tel Aviv-Beirut
Karim Goury talks to the director of the new feature film on war, love and borders, Tel Aviv-Beirut.
War and the Absurd in Zein El-Amine’s Watermelon Stories
Rana Asfour reviews a collection of stories from writer and educator Zein El-Amine, who was born and raised in Lebanon.
Meet Ghoula—Arabic Music Remixed Via Tunisia
In her latest music column for TMR, Melissa Chemam profiles the genre-defying Tunisian electro artist Ghoula.
The Politics of Wishful Thinking: Deena Mohamed’s Shubeik Lubeik
Katie Logan reviews the much-anticipated English version of the Egyptian graphic novel, a tour de force.
The Forced Disappearance of Street Vendors in Beirut
In the midst of Lebanon’s economic crisis, UN policy and research specialist Ghida Ismail laments the vanishing of Beirut’s street vendors.
In Search of Fathers: Raja Shehadeh’s Palestinian Memoir
Amal Ghandour reviews the new book from the author of “Palestinian Walks,” “Occupation Diaries” and “Strangers in the House.”
Poet Farnaz Fatemi
Farnaz Fatemi is an Iranian American poet in California whose book “Sister Tongue” won the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize.
Nazanin Pouyandeh
The featured artist for March is Franco-Iranian painter Nazanin Pouyandeh, whose rich figurative paintings are showing in two major French exhibitions.
“Raise Your Head High”—new fiction from Leila Aboulela
Cairo-born novelist Leila Aboulela weaves the sad story of two sisters’ alienation on the eve of the uprising in Tahrir Square.
Broken Home: Britain in the Time of Migration
Malu Halasa tells the story of refugees seeking asylum in Britain who brave the dangerous waters of the English Channel.
“Counter Strike”—a story by MK HARB
MK Harb, a writer from Beirut, remembers a tenuous sense of home as he searched for himself in adolescence.