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Tag: Arabic

23 January, 2023 • Melissa Chemam

Berlin-Based Palestinian Returns to Arabic in new Amrat Album

Music writer Melissa Chemam interviews Rasha Nahas on her new Arabic-language album, "Amrat."

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9 January, 2023 • Jenine Abboushi

Sudden Journeys: Morocco Encore

Jenine Abboushi in her latest travel essay, returns to Morocco for a long-overdue visit.

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16 October, 2022 • Tony Barnstone, Bilal Shaw

Faces Hidden in the Dust by Ghalib—Two Ghazals

Tony Barnstone and Bilal Shaw present their book of Ghabib ghazals, translated from the Urdu.

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15 September, 2022 • Ahmed Farouk

Translating Walter Benjamin on Berlin, a German-Arabic Journey

Ahmed Farouk, the Arabic translator of Günter Grass, W. G. Sebald and Rosa Luxemburg, among others, struggles with Walter Benjamin.

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15 September, 2022 • Viola Shafik

Two Women Artists Dialogue with Berlin and the Biennale

Viola Shafik profiles Jihan El-Tahiri and Myriam El Haïk, two Arab artists in the 2022 Berlin Biennale.

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18 July, 2022 • Mohammed Al-Naas, Rana Asfour

Libyan Stories from the novel “Bread on Uncle Milad’s Table”

The Markaz Review presents Libya's Mohammed al-Naas in these exclusive excerpts translated by Rana Asfour.

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11 July, 2022 • Ayelet Tsabari

“Disappearance/Muteness”—Tales from a Life in Translation

A writer born into both Arabic and Hebrew linguistic traditions finds herself writing in English but longing for Arabic.

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15 June, 2022 • Rabih Alameddine

Rabih Alameddine: “Remembering Nasser”

Winner of the 2022 PEN/Faulkner award, novelist Rabih Alameddine tells an essential story from his Beirut childhood.

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15 June, 2022 • Dima Mikhayel Matta

Dima Mikhayel Matta: “This Text Is a Very Lonely Document”

A bold excerpt from the new Saqi anthology, "This Arab is Queer," in which a non-binary person from Lebanon explores solitude and family.

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15 June, 2022 • Sarah AlKahly-Mills

Sarah Kahly-Mills: “The Salamander”

In this magical tale set in Lebanon and on a mysterious Mediterranean island, people dream of escape while a biologist seeks an elusive salamander.

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15 May, 2022 • Anton Shammas

Can the Bilingual Speak?

Anton Shammas — the Palestinian novelist who wrote the Hebrew-language "Arabeques" — attempts to sort himself.

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15 January, 2022 • Ahmed Naji, Rana Asfour

Taming the Immigrant: Musings of a Writer in Exile

Former prisoner and Egyptian writer in exile Ahmed Naji contemplates what it means to be a "brown writer" in exile in America.

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29 November, 2021 • Rana Asfour

From Jerusalem to a Kingdom by the Sea

Rana Asfour reviews a new memoir about the legendary Dajani family, charged by a Turkish sultan with watching over King David's Tomb in Jerusalem, but exiled in 1948.

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18 October, 2021 • A.J. Naddaff

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 from the touristic Grand Place, there is a park with two parallel… Continue reading The Anguish of Being Lebanese: Interview with Author Racha Mounaged

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15 September, 2021 • Brahim El Guabli

My Amazigh Indigeneity (the Bifurcated Roots of a Native Moroccan)

Brahim El Guabli   I am Amazigh, Black, and Sahrawi. Amazigh language is my mother tongue. My mother is Black, and my father is Sahrawi. The only picture I own… Continue reading My Amazigh Indigeneity (the Bifurcated Roots of a Native Moroccan)

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