Hadani Ditmars, fresh from a return trip to Iraq, surveys the burgeoning plastic arts scene.
23 MAY 2022 • By Hadani Ditmars
Washington DC's artist-entrepreneur-philanthropist (and one-time mayoral candidate) Andy Shallal dishes on matters of hunger and racism.
15 APRIL 2022 • By Jordan Elgrably
In which Philip Grant muses on Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq’s tenth century cookbook, "Kitāb aṭ-Ṭabīkh" and cooking and baking...
15 APRIL 2022 • By Philip Grant
Melissa Chemam is swept away by an Iraqi American artist's latest exhibit at Mosaic Rooms in London.
28 MARCH 2022 • By Melissa Chemam
Artist and writer Micaela Amateau Amato uses art and words to create unique ways of transmogrifying the world.
15 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Hisham Bustani
Arie Akkermans reviews an Iraqi American's exhibitions as they attempt to recreate missing and destroyed artifacts taken from...
7 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
On the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, Hadani Ditmars remembers the treasures and the ruins of Afghanistan...
16 AUGUST 2021 • By Mohja Kahf
Malu Halasa reviews a new anthology of Arab women writers on sex, love and lust, including "the leading...
30 MAY 2021 • By Malu Halasa
Reviewer Eman Quotah finds that Omaima Al-Khamis' "singular imagination shines through in an erudite and sensual tale that...
2 MAY 2021 • By Faraj Bayrakdar
Hadani Ditmars remembers what Baghdad was like following the second Gulf War in 2003, when she toured Abu...
14 MARCH 2021 • By Mohja Kahf
Osama Esber interviews an Iraqi environmental writer on his book Guardians of the Water and the future of...
14 JANUARY 2021 • By Osama Esber
God 99 blurs the boundaries between fiction and autobiography, reportage and the novel. It blends the fantastic with...
14 DECEMBER 2020 • By Eman Quotah
