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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15 August, 2021 • Jenny White
Novelist and university professor Jenny White creates a graphic novel on 1970s Turkey with illustrator Ergün Gündüz.
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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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21 February, 2021 • Rana Haddad
Rana Haddad interviews Istanbullu novelist Nektaria Anastasiadou about the little-known Rum community of Istanbul featured in her new novel.
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20 December, 2020 • Selim 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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