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Tag: immigrants

5 February, 2023 • Mihaela Moscaliuc

Poet Mihaela Moscaliuc—a “Permanent Immigrant”

Immigrant poet Mihaela Muscaliuc has wandered half her life, far afield from her native Romania, and is always in motion.

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16 January, 2023 • Laëtitia Soula

The Story of Youssef Salem, Nominated for the Goncourt

Laëtitia Soula reviews the acidic new comedy from Baya Kasmi, which plays on the Rothian theme of intimate family confessions.

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12 December, 2022 • Laëtitia Soula

French-Algerian Artist Djamel Tatah’s Solitary Crowds

Laëtitia Soula caught the opening of Djamel Tatah's extravagant show at the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, where she spoke with the artist.

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27 June, 2022 • Rana Asfour

Leaving One’s Country in Mai Al-Nakib’s “An Unlasting Home”

Rana Asfour reviews Mai Al-Nakib's debut novel, in which the protagonist always thought she would leave her country.

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20 June, 2022 • Jordan Elgrably

World Refugee Day — What We Owe Each Other

World Refugee Day is the first of seven days during which refugees will be recognized in events across the world.

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15 June, 2022 • Ahmed Naji, Rana Asfour

Ahmed Naji: “Godshow.com”

The Egyptian novelist and author of "Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in Prison" finds versions of Islam in the Nevada desert.

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15 June, 2022 • Lisa Teasley

Lisa Teasley: “Death is Beautiful”

Should we be happy we're finite? Lisa Teasley weaves a tale merging art, transhumanists and artificial intelligence.

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13 June, 2022 • Hannah Fox

Book Review: “The Go-Between” by Osman Yousefzada

Hannah Fox reviews the Birmingham memoir by fashion artist Osman Yousefzada.

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15 January, 2022 • Iason Athanasiadis

Children in Search of Refuge: a Photographic Essay

Photographer, documentarian and journalist Iason Athanasiadis shares images from more than 10 years of reporting from Afghanistan to Greece and back.

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14 March, 2021 • Rayyan Al-Shawaf

Allah and the American Dream

Rayyan Al-Shawaf reviews The Bad Muslim Discount, the second novel from Syed Masood, but isn't sure he likes its happy ending.

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14 February, 2021 • Alia Mossallam

A Permanent Temporariness

An Egyptian in Berlin finds she and her partner live in a state of seemingly permanent transition.

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1 October, 2018 • TMR

They Came for Muslims and Immigrants, Then They Came for Me

When a repressive government moves against the most despised in society, if left unchecked, no one is safe and it will move against its own citizens.

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6 September, 2018 • TMR

Islamophobic? How Does it Feel to be a Problem?

Politicians, not terrorists, are the chief instigators of Islamophobic prejudice, and with election it gets worse.

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