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World Picks: July 2021

World Picks: July 2021

Travel the world, meet people, see great places, without ever leaving the comfort of your screen…well, in some...

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Truth or Dare? Reinterpreting Al-Harīrī’s Arab Rogue

Truth or Dare? Reinterpreting Al-Harīrī’s Arab Rogue

Farah Abdessamad reviews a new English translation of Impostures from Basra-born Al-Hariri that revives the "eloquent rogue" genre...

14 MARCH 2021 • By Danielle Haque
Poetry Against the State

Poetry Against the State

Gil Anidjar reviews A Bibliography for After Jews and Arabs, and suggests that "our problem is that we...

14 MARCH 2021 • By Preeta Samarasan
The Truth About Iraq: Memory, Trauma and the End of an Era

The Truth About Iraq: Memory, Trauma and the End of an Era

Hadani Ditmars remembers what Baghdad was like following the second Gulf War in 2003, when she toured Abu...

14 MARCH 2021 • By Mohja Kahf
Watch Water Films & Donate to Water Organizations

Watch Water Films & Donate to Water Organizations

Is the cost of water really higher than the cost of petrol? Are we destined to run out...

16 JANUARY 2021 • By TMR
Iraq and the Arab World on the Edge of the Abyss

Iraq and the Arab World on the Edge of the Abyss

Osama Esber interviews an Iraqi environmental writer on his book Guardians of the Water and the future of...

14 JANUARY 2021 • By Osama Esber
On American Democracy and Empire, a Corrective

On American Democracy and Empire, a Corrective

The MAGA movement is not a cause but a consequence of GOP policies, and its instantaneous vanishing with...

14 JANUARY 2021 • By Maece Seirafi
Hassan Blasim’s “God 99”

Hassan Blasim’s “God 99”

God 99 blurs the boundaries between fiction and autobiography, reportage and the novel. It blends the fantastic with...

14 DECEMBER 2020 • By Eman Quotah
Kuwait’s Alanoud Alsharekh, Feminist Groundbreaker

Kuwait’s Alanoud Alsharekh, Feminist Groundbreaker

Nada Ghosn speaks to Dr. Alanoud Alsharekh in our monthly series profiling trailblazing Arab, Iranian and other women...

6 DECEMBER 2020 • By I. Rida Mahmood
World Art, Music & Zoom Beat the Pandemic Blues

World Art, Music & Zoom Beat the Pandemic Blues

Mala Halasa curates art, music, parks and politix from London…

28 SEPTEMBER 2020 • By Rana Asfour
Interlink Proposes 4 New Arab Novels

Interlink Proposes 4 New Arab Novels

New literature translated from abroad is a cause for celebration.

22 SEPTEMBER 2020 • By
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