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

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.

5 DECEMBER 2022 • By Melissa Chemam
Recipe for a Good Life: a Poem

Recipe for a Good Life: a Poem

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

15 APRIL 2022 • By Mehnaz Afridi
Three Poems of Love and Desire by 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...

15 MARCH 2022 • By Noreen Moustafa
Three Love Poems by Rumi, Translated by 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...

15 MARCH 2022 • By Haleh Liza Gafori
On “True Love Leaves No Traces”

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...

15 MARCH 2022 • By Selma Dabbagh
Hananah Zaheer’s “Lovebirds”? Don’t Be Fooled by the Title

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...

31 JANUARY 2022 • By Lorraine Ali
Three Poems by Kashmiri American Bard 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...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Karima Ahdad
The Triumph of Love and the Palestinian Revolution

The Triumph of Love and the Palestinian Revolution

Fouad Mami reviews Susan Abulhawa's powerful new novel "Against the Loveless World," about Palestinians in a revolutionary mode.

16 MAY 2021 • By Jean Lamore
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