15 September, 2021 • Ava Homa
Ava Homa how statelessness, trauma and political exile shaped her novel Daughters of Smoke and Fire Coming of age as a Kurdish girl in Iran, I learned early on… Continue reading Why Resistance Is Foundational to Kurdish Literature
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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 August, 2021 • Sherine Hamdy
Anthropologist and comix author Sherine Hamdy provides a brief overview of new and recent Arab & Middle Eastern women’s political cartooning.
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12 August, 2021 • Lawrence Joffe
Travel the world, meet people, see great places, without ever leaving the comfort of your screen…well, in some cases you can go in person!
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25 July, 2021 • TMR
Our editors reveal their diverse literary interests, with more than a dozen recommendations for summer reading.
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3 July, 2021 • TMR
Travel the world, meet people, see great places, without ever leaving the comfort of your screen…well, in some cases you can go in person!
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14 May, 2021 • Todd Miller
Roving reporter Todd Miller, who has published four books exploring the world and its borders, questions the philosophy of walls.
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14 May, 2021 • Aida Y. Haddad
We accompany a family fleeing civil war for safe harbor, in a short story by Aida Y. Haddad.
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20 December, 2020 • Selîm Temo
Kurdish poet and scholar Selîm Temo, takes us inside the continuing Academics for Peace struggle through his personal story.
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27 November, 2020 • TMR
Kurdish poet-scholar-translator Selîm Temo thinks of the young Thomas Bernhard and his infant son as he fights for life in intensive care.
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13 December, 2017 • Jordan Elgrably
Arabs/Muslims and Iranians have become the scapegoats and villains du jour, yet many are thriving creatively.
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