Women Battle for the Soul of America
Columnist Maryam Zar argues that women will define the battle for the soul of the United States, at a time when conservative vs. liberal values literally mean the difference between life and death.
The Imagination Interviews
How Are You Feeling? Have the Trump Years Been Good to You?
We asked Arab and Iranian Americans how they view the Trump years and which way folks are voting.
Falastin, Sami Tamimi’s “Palestinian Modern”
N.A. Mansour reviews the tantalizing recipes in Sami Tamimi & Tara Wigley's new cookbook of Palestinian cuisine.
Why “The Red and the Blue”?
What is an arts publication doing writing about "The Red and the Blue"—colors symbolic of the divisions of a troubled nation?
Egypt—Abandoned but not Forgotten
A Land Like You gives a palpable sense of a community that could not have imagined its own uprooting out of Egypt.
World Art, Music & Zoom Beat the Pandemic Blues
Mala Halasa curates art, music, parks and politix from London…
Interlink Proposes 4 New Arab Novels
New literature translated from abroad is a cause for celebration.
Emel Mathlouthi Returns with The Tunis Diaries
The vocalist from Tunis who lives in New York was confined in Tunis and found herself "falling back in love with music that is simple, direct, and from the heart."
Bab L’Bluz Fuses Gnawa, Blues & Rock
Founded in 2018, Bab L'Bluz has just come out with a stunning debut album fusing gnawa, blues, rock and chaabi, not to be missed.
Hassan Musa exhibition in Paris / “I Love You”
Franco-Sudanese master painter Hassan Musa is the bomb.
What We’re Into
What we're reading, watching, listening to and otherwise indulging in (comments welcome).
An Outsider’s Long Goodbye
I love Beirut. I've lived there for longer than I've lived anywhere else on earth. But what happened in Beirut on August 4th is profoundly not my story.
Aboudy’s Roses
An exclusive excerpt from Gaja Pellegrini-Bettoli's Generazioni senza padri: Crescere in Guerra in Medio Oriente…Fatherless Generation: Growing up in War in the Middle East, trans. from the Italian by Sarah Mills.
Wajdi Mouawad, Just the Playwright for Our Dystopian World
Wajdi Mouawad has shaken Western theatre out of its rigid rules, bringing a dream-infused approach, odes to childhood's energy and a sense of adventure, rooted in his Lebanese culture and fascination for great Greek tragedies.
Arts in the Pandemic Age
Covid-19 shows no sign of abating, forcing cities and some countries into more quarantines and further lockdown; without music, cinema, literature and artistic events, how long can we hold on?