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Review

14 March, 2021 • Malu Halasa

The Crash, Covid-19 and Other Iranian Stories

Malu Halasa reviews the new graphic novel by former political prisoner and editorial cartoonist Mana Neyestani, released in 2021 by IranWire.com.

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7 March, 2021 • Melissa Chemam

Faïza Guène’s Fight for French Respectability

Melissa Chemam considers the sixth novel by France's former teen sensation Faïza Guène and whether she is now part of the literary canon.

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25 January, 2021 • Farah Abdessamad

The Polyphony of a Syrian Refugee Speaks Volumes

Farah Abdessamad reviews Silence is a Sense, the new novel from Layla AlAmmar.

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30 December, 2020 • Layla AlAmmar

The Howling of the Dog: Adania Shibli’s “Minor Detail”

Layla AlAmmar takes us into the heart of Adania Shibli's literary thriller, where Palestinian lives are but a "minor detail."

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15 November, 2020 • Monique El-Faizy

Isabel Wilkerson on Race and Caste in the 21st Century

"It's impossible not to think about race in relation to the United States these days," writes Paris correspondent Monique El-Faizy in this review of Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste."

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15 November, 2020 • Anne-Marie O'Connor

An American in Istanbul Between Muslim and Christian Worlds

Anne-Marie O'Connor reviews the debut novel by Nektaria Anastasiadou, set in Istanbul's venerable Rum community.

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15 November, 2020 • TMR

Is White Feminism the De Facto Weapon of White Supremacy?

Rana Asfour reviews White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad—"an explosive book of history and cultural criticism" that argues "white feminism has been a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against black and indigenous women, and women of color."

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15 October, 2020 • Rana Asfour

The “Surreal Hell” That Made Tahar Ben Jelloun a Writer

The Punishment is a first-person account from an author who considers writers to be "witnesses of history."

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15 October, 2020 • Malu Halasa

Arabs & Race in America through the Short Story Prism

The best writing in "Alligator & Other Stories" starts a different conversation about Arab belonging and assimilation in America, through the prism of Syrian experience.

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15 October, 2020 • N.A. Mansour

Falastin, Sami Tamimi’s “Palestinian Modern”

N.A. Mansour reviews the tantalizing recipes in Sami Tamimi & Tara Wigley's new cookbook of Palestinian cuisine.

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15 September, 2020 • Sarah AlKahly-Mills

Salvaging the shipwreck of humanity in Amin Maalouf’s Adrift

Maalouf draws a line from pivotal years in Middle Eastern history to some of the most pressing dilemmas currently facing humanity.

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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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1 October, 2018 • TMR

Algiers, the Black Panthers & the Revolution

While Elaine Mokhtefi worked devotedly for the Black Panthers, the men who ran it were, it turned out, deeply flawed.

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