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Tag: Islam

15 November, 2022 • Rushda Rafeek

An Interview with with Graphic Memoirist Malaka Gharib

Rusha Rafeek interviews graphic memoirist Malaka Gharib about her Arab American coming of age story.

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7 November, 2022 • Sarah Eltantawi

Why Muslim Palestinian “Mo” Preferred Catholic Confession to Therapy

As a Muslim American and scholar of Islam, Sarah Eltantawi finds the new series from Mo Amer and Ramy Youssef cathartic.

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19 September, 2022 • Francisco Letelier

Muslims in the Americas—a review of “Praying to the West”

Francisco Letelier, a non-Muslim, reviews Omar Mouallem's "Praying to the West" from the outside looking in.

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5 September, 2022 • Iason Athanasiadis

Al-Koni’s Tuareg Perspective on Islam’s Conquest of North Africa

Iason Athanasiadis reviews the new Ibrahim al-Koni translation of a story that recounts Islam's conquest of North Africa.

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15 August, 2022 • Ali al-Muqri

“Fatima and The Handsome Jew”—Excerpt from Ali Al-Muqri’s Novel

In "The Handsome Jew" the novelist from Yemen recounts a powerful yet tragic tale of forbidden love.

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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 • Barrak Alzaid

Barrak Alzaid: “Pink and Blue”

A young storyteller in Kuwait is captivated by the lives of Filipina women he does not know.

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15 April, 2022 • Fadi Kattan

Ma’moul: Toward a Philosophy of Food

Bethlehem chef and writer Fadi Kattan muses on the philosophy of food and faith, choosing local tradition over religion.

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14 March, 2021 • TMR

Academics Decry French Attacks on “Islamo-Leftists”

Hundreds of French and Anglophone academics are speaking out against what they call the French government’s “conspiracy theory” and “witch hunt” of so-called Islamo-leftists.

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15 November, 2020 • Melissa Chemam

Why is Arabic Provoking such Controversy in France?

Melissa Chemam takes us inside the French controversy over Arabic and radical Islam.

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14 September, 2020 • India Hixon Radfar

Poetic Exploration of Illness Conveys Trauma

I am waiting for the Tunisian American writer Leila Chatti to tell me, in her own words, in her debut collection of poetry, Deluge, about women in Islam, but she is telling me about blood instead.

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