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Tag: love

5 December, 2022 • Melissa Chemam

Love Has Everything to Do with Maryam Touzani’s The Blue Caftan

Melissa Chemam reviews the new taboo-busting feature film from Moroccan director Maryam Touzani.

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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 April, 2022 • Fari Bradley

Recipe for a Good Life: a Poem

British Iranian sound artist Fari Bradley has sorted out the important things in life.

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15 March, 2022 • Nouri Al-Jarrah

Three Poems of Love and Desire by Nouri Al-Jarrah

Three poems of love and desire, composed in Beirut during the darkest days of the civil war, and war within war, by exiled Syrian poet Nouri al-Jarrah.

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15 March, 2022 • Haleh Liza Gafori

Three Love Poems by Rumi, Translated by Haleh Liza Gafori

Iranian American poet and translator Haleh Liza Gafori presents a new volume of Rumi translations in "GOLD" published by NYRB Classics.

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15 March, 2022 • Arie Amaya-Akkermans

On “True Love Leaves No Traces”

From Leonard Cohen to Apollo and Daphne to French philosopher Jean-Lun Nancy, Arie Akkermans-Amaya looks at the influences of an Istanbul exhibition.

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31 January, 2022 • Mehnaz Afridi

Hananah Zaheer’s “Lovebirds”? Don’t Be Fooled by the Title

Mehnaz Afridi reviews the new book of short stories by a Pakistani American writer determined to disrupt her readers' expectations.

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15 September, 2021 • Agha Shahid Ali

Three Poems by Kashmiri American Bard Agha Shahid Ali

Agha Shahid Ali Tonight    Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar                          —Laurence Hope Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell tonight? Whom else from… Continue reading Three Poems by Kashmiri American Bard Agha Shahid Ali

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