Nazareth’s Liwan Features Palestinian Singer Haya Zaatry
This month TMR's music critic Melissa Chemam discusses Palestinian arts and "cultural resistance" at Liwan in Nazareth, where vocalist Haya Zaatry recently performed.
The Imagination Interviews
Flash Fiction: “A Wife’s Diary”
In this flash fiction translated from Arabic, a woman poet finds herself at first thwarted by her possessive husband, then overshadowed when he decides to compete with her.
“A Tunisian Revolt” — the Rebel Power of Arab Comics
Writer-translator Nada Ghosn talks to the illustrator of a new graphic novel recounting one of Tunisia's earliest uprisings, in 1984, presaging the Jasmine Revolution.
Atia Shafee: Raw and Distant Memories
Artist Atia Shafee hopes that her paintings will "resonate, trigger, and challenge, drawing the observer into the experience," imparting a universal appreciation for art.
LA Sketches: Sneakers and the Man From Taroudant
A young artisan from Taroudant, Morocco now calls Los Angeles home and brings a particular flare to shoe design.
LA Sketches: Fred Saidy, Humorist
In a blast from Hollywood's colorful past, Lebanese American writer Fred Saidy remembers Mrs. Nazralla's exquisite baklava, and her loquacious manner.
LA Sketches: John Nazarian, Defender of the Underdog
Syrian and Armenian American John Nazarian was for decades a champion of those who struggled in Los Angeles.
Two Poems by Sophia Armen
L.A. Armenian poet and activist Sophia Armen is an American original.
L.A. Story: Poems from Laila Halaby
Poet and novelist Laila Halaby writes her Los Angeles experience in a cascade of words that indelibly capture moments and memories.
LA Sketches: Dimitris Mahlis, Oud Artist
Musician-composer Dimitris Mahlis celebrates multiple oud traditions as he offers TMR listeners two meditative taksim.
Reza Abdoh: L.A.’s Theatre Visionary
Playwright and theatre director Reza Abdoh left his mark on Los Angeles and national theatre culture, as actor-writer Juliana Francis Kelly recounts in her look back on their collaborative relationship.
“Where Are You From?” Identity and the Spirit of Ethno-Futurism
Writer and film executive Bavand Karim meditates on Iranian American identity and an alternative vision for self-realization in the context of the ethno-futurist movement.
The Alexandrian: Life and Death in L.A.
An Egyptian American daughter recalls the enduring love her immigrant father harbored for Los Angeles and the American Dream.
Farzad Kohan: Love, Migration, Identity
Farzad Kohan's art is a bridge and commentary on his Iranian and American worlds, sometimes converging, at other times colliding.
Silver Stories from Artist Micaela Amateau Amato
Artist and writer Micaela Amateau Amato uses art and words to create unique ways of transmogrifying the world.