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Tag: Berlin

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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16 January, 2023 • Malu Halasa

End of an Era: Al Saqi Bookshop in London Closes

Malu Halasa surveys the legacy of Al Saqi while also lamenting the end of Banipal Magazine and the retirement of the British Museum's Venetia Porter.

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15 December, 2022 • Rana Haddad

The Swimmers and the Mardini Sisters: a True Liberation Tale

Syrian British novelist Rana Haddad reviews the new feature film from Sally El Hoseini on Netflix.

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15 September, 2022 • Jordan Elgrably

Why Berlin?

Editor Jordan Elgrably introduces the BERLIN issue guest editor, Viola Shafik, and more than a dozen new contributors to TMR.

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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 • Ahmed Awny, Rana Asfour

“What Are You Doing in Berlin?”—a short story by Ahmed Awny

Egyptian writer Ahmed Awny divigates between fiction and reality in this decentering short story.

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15 September, 2022 • Shada Mustafa

Paranoid in Berlin: a short story by Shada Mustafa

Shada Mustafa, author of the novel "Things I Left Behind," negotiates Berlin from a recent immigrant's vantage point.

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15 September, 2022 • Viola Shafik

Ziad Kalthoum: Trajectory of a Syrian Filmmaker

Film historian Viola Shafik interviews Syrian filmmaker Ziad Kalthoum about his peripatetic life in Syria and beyond.

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15 September, 2022 • Viola Shafik

My Berlin Triptych: On Museums and Restitution

Filmmaker and historian Viola Shafik muses on German art, colonialism and restitution in Berlin.

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15 September, 2022 • Rasha Abbas, Katharine Halls

The Intruders and the City

Rasha Abbas, a Syrian writer who ventures into the surreal, examines her conflicted relationship with Berlin.

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15 September, 2022 • Maisan Hamdan, Rana Asfour

Phoneless in Filthy Berlin

Maisan Hamdan, a single Palestinian woman, attempts to survive in Berlin without a cell phone.

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15 September, 2022 • Randa Aboubakr

Berlin Gastronomical: A Feast of Flavors

Author and literature professor Randa Aboubakr, who travels back and forth from Cairo to Berlin, explores the city's Arab offerings.

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15 September, 2022 • Mohamed Radwan

Kairo Koshary, Berlin’s Egyptian Food Truck

A serial entrepreneur, engineer and nomad settles in Berlin, only to start up an Egyptian food truck.

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15 September, 2022 • Irit Neidhardt

The Mystery of Tycoon Michel Baida in Old Arab Berlin

Film curator and scholar Irit Neidhardt searches for clues to the Berlin disappearance of gramophone tycoon Michel Baida.

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15 September, 2022 • Abir Kopty

Unapologetic Palestinians, Reactionary Germans

Abir Kopty argues that German guilt is being used to silence Palestinians and others who protest on their behalf.

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