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Tag: Saudi Arabia

15 August, 2022 • Jordan Elgrably

Attack on Salman Rushdie is Shocking Tip of the Iceberg

An attack on one writer anywhere is an attack on freedom of expression everywhere.

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20 December, 2021 • Melissa Chemam

Music in the Middle East: Business can’t Buy Authenticity

180,000 electronic music aficionados attended the SOUNDSTORM festival in Riyadh this month, but as columnist Melissa Chemam writes, "it is impossible not to see these events as a part of the country’s soft power and policy to whitewash its terrible human rights record."

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22 November, 2021 • TMR

Hayy Jameel — Jeddah’s Sparkling New Center for the Arts

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is home to a major new arts and cultural center, opening to the public on December 6, 2021.

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22 November, 2021 • Deborah Williams

Traveling in Contentious Spaces — Saudi Arabia

When friends in Abu Dhabi asked Deborah Williams how she could support MBS by going to “his” festival, she didn’t have an answer, only another question: how do we draw the lines around where we will or won’t go?

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22 November, 2021 • Waqar Ahmed

The Promotion (a short story from Saudi Arabia)

What happens when an immigrant professor dresses to impress in a bid to land tenure at a Saudi university? A short story by Waqar Ahmed paints a humorous picture.

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14 May, 2021 • Farah Abdessamad

The Murals of Yemen’s Haifa Subay

Yemen street artist, activist and mother Haifa Subay speaks to Farah Abdessamad about the state of the country and her work.

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7 March, 2021 • Farah Abdessamad

In Yemen, Women are the Heroes

International aid worker and writer Farah Abdessamad has been traveling to Yemen for work since 2014. This is the first time she has written about her experiences there publicly.

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14 February, 2021 • Robert Solé

Ten Years of Hope and Blood

In which Egyptian-Syrian-French journalist and novelist Robert Solé considers the Arab awakenings across the region.

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14 December, 2020 • Eman Quotah

You Drive Me Crazy, from “Bride of the Sea”

In this debut novel Eman Quotah practically delivers an epic as she writes about a Saudi family, torn between Arab and American identities and culture clashes.

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22 September, 2020 • TMR

Interlink Proposes 4 New Arab Novels

New literature translated from abroad is a cause for celebration.

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8 December, 2018 • Jordan Elgrably

New Book Traces Roots of Saudi-Funded Extremism

The Saudi sect of Wahhabism—an extreme and merely 200-year-old iteration on Islam—exercises a dangerously pervasive influence on imams and believers.

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6 September, 2018 • TMR

Refugee from the War in Yemen

For those who know little about Yemen, sometimes learning about distant disaster through a human story is the best way to come to grips with it.

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