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Tag: Muslim

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 April, 2022 • Mischa Geracoulis

“Breaking Bread, Building Bridges”: a Film Review

Mischa Geracoulis reviews an Arab-Jewish food for peace documentary shot in Haifa.

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24 January, 2022 • Justin Stearns

Arabic and Latin, Cosmopolitan Languages of the Premodern Mediterranean and its Hinterlands

Justin Stearns, a scholar of the pre-modern Muslim Middle East, reviews the new book by Karla Mallette on the fascinating history of two of the world's great languages.

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15 January, 2022 • Ahmed Naji, Rana Asfour

Taming the Immigrant: Musings of a Writer in Exile

Former prisoner and Egyptian writer in exile Ahmed Naji contemplates what it means to be a "brown writer" in exile in America.

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29 November, 2021 • Rana Haddad

Syria Through British Eyes

British-Syrian novelist Rana Haddad compares her experience growing up in Syria with the way people beyond Syria's borders see her country.

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15 October, 2021 • Tiyo Attallah Salah-El

Prison Letters From a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row

Excerpts from Pen Pal: Prison Letters From a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row Tiyo Attallah Salah-El, edited by Paul Alan Smith Or Books (Sept. 2020) ISBN 9781682193044   Tiyo… Continue reading Prison Letters From a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row

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14 June, 2021 • Tariq Mehmood

Pakistani Bureaucrats & The Booze Permit

Novelist and filmmaker Tariq Mehmood weaves a tale of wasta, women and booze in Rawalpindi.

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28 September, 2020 • Malu Halasa

World Art, Music & Zoom Beat the Pandemic Blues

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

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10 April, 2017 • TMR

A Palestinian and a Jew Meet…

… laugh at each other's jokes and marry.

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10 November, 2015 • Jordan Elgrably

Tamim Ansary’s Afghan-American Story

The story of an Afghan who became an American in the age of Haight-Ashbury.

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