Artist At Work: Maya Youssef Finds Home in the Qanun
Rana Asfour talks to Syrian-born and raised qanunist Maya Youssef, who now lives and teaches in the UK.
Rana Asfour talks to Syrian-born and raised qanunist Maya Youssef, who now lives and teaches in the UK.
An Athens native returns to Greece after a 20-year sojourn across the Mediterranean and Middle East, covering turmoil and displacement.
Syrian British novelist Rana Haddad reviews the new feature film from Sally El Hoseini on Netflix.
Film historian Viola Shafik interviews Syrian filmmaker Ziad Kalthoum about his peripatetic life in Syria and beyond.
Rasha Abbas, a Syrian writer who ventures into the surreal, examines her conflicted relationship with Berlin.
A serial entrepreneur, engineer and nomad settles in Berlin, only to start up an Egyptian food truck.
Angélique Crux reviews the award-winning documentary from Lebanese filmmaker Wissam Tanios.
Critic Fouad Mami suggests that a Syrian author may be guilty of pseudo-thinking in service of the counterrevolution.
Syrian artist and writer Khalil Younes recalls the strained sexuality of Martyrs Square in Damascus.
Jordan Elgrably reviews the recent feature film from directors Rana Kazkaz and Anas Khalaf.
TMR presents an exclusive excerpt from Abeer Esber's fourth novel, translated here by Nouha Homad, about a Damascene woman on the run, hiding out in Dubai.
Rana Asfour provides an intimate look at two new Arab novels in translation, from Lebanese and Syrian authors.
"What a British person imagined Syria or the Middle East to be ... was more important than what I or people like me thought. We were subjective, but their opinions were objective."
A Syrian refugee successfully resettled in Brussels shares part of his story.
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