15 September, 2021 • Dima Alzayat
The Wrong End of the Telescope a novel by Rabih Alameddine Grove Atlantic (Sept 2021) ISBN 9780802157805 Dima Alzayat When in 2018 director Lena Dunham announced she had been hired… Continue reading The Limits of Empathy in Rabih Alameddine’s Refugee Saga
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15 September, 2021 • Sherine Elbanhawy
For a brutally honest look at what it’s been like to run a business and raise a family in Cairo these past twenty years, read Diwan’s founder Nadia Wassef’s “Shelf Life” How a labor of love consumes, challenges and fills her life with questions whose answers are often on the…
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29 August, 2021 • khulud khamis
The Slovak-Palestinian writer khulud khamis (sic) of Haifa appreciates the spiralling storytelling of her compeer, Akram Musallam of Ramallah.
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24 August, 2021 • Sherifa Zuhur
Baraa and Zaman: Reading Egyptian Modernity in Shadi Abdel Salam’s The Mummy , by Youssef Rakha Palgrave 2020 ISBN 9783030613532 Sherifa Zuhur Baraa and Zaman: Reading Egyptian Modernity in Shadi… Continue reading Reading Egypt from the Outside In, Youssef Rakha’s “Baraa and Zaman”
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8 August, 2021 • Farah Abdessamad
Mohamed Kheir’s oneiric novel takes readers on a journey around Egypt after the failed Arab Spring.
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14 July, 2021 • Hadani Ditmars
Hadani Ditmars reviews the new tome from Terreform and AUC Press that gives Gazans hope for a better future, if they can build it.
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14 July, 2021 • Tony Litwinko
California poet and activist Tony Litwinko reacts to the painted images in "Gaza: Mowing the Lawn" from Jaime Scholnick.
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11 July, 2021 • El Habib Louai
El Habib Louai on the Moroccan novel that sizes up and lampoons a country coming into its own in the internet age.
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4 July, 2021 • Maryam Zar
Maryam Zar reviews the new biography from Kai Bird, examining the one-term president who went on to change the world.
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4 July, 2021 • Jessica Proett
Jessica Proett reviews Salar Abdoh's empirical novel set during the days when ISIS was running loose across Iraq and Syria.
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28 June, 2021 • Mark LeVine
TMR reviews a new book on Palestinian and Israeli musicians looks at the border zones and interstices of the conflict.
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14 June, 2021 • Mischa Geracoulis
Mischa Geracoulis discovers the film Push and explores the incredible greed and inequity of the speculative housing market.
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6 June, 2021 • Myriam Gurba
Myriam Gurba reviews a book that argues that some "white feminists accept the benefits conferred by white supremacy at the expense of people of color."
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6 June, 2021 • Jenine Abboushi
Jenine Abboushi reviews the recent anthology of essays on socialism in the context of Palestinian resistance.
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