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TMR Weekly

4 October, 2021 • Brett Kline

Water-Deprived Palestinians Endure Settler Rampage, while Army Punishes NGO Protesters

Brett Kline In the last days of September, violent incidents in the South Hebron Hills area of the Occupied West Bank attracted media attention across the political spectrum in Israel,… Continue reading Water-Deprived Palestinians Endure Settler Rampage, while Army Punishes NGO Protesters

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29 August, 2021 • khulud khamis

Palestinian Akram Musallam Writes of Loss and Memory

The Slovak-Palestinian writer khulud khamis (sic) of Haifa appreciates the spiralling storytelling of her compeer, Akram Musallam of Ramallah.

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24 August, 2021 • Sherifa Zuhur

Reading Egypt from the Outside In, Youssef Rakha’s “Baraa and Zaman”

Baraa and Zaman:  Reading Egyptian Modernity in Shadi Abdel Salam’s The Mummy , by Youssef Rakha Palgrave 2020 ISBN 9783030613532 Sherifa Zuhur Baraa and Zaman:  Reading Egyptian Modernity in Shadi… Continue reading Reading Egypt from the Outside In, Youssef Rakha’s “Baraa and Zaman”

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16 August, 2021 • Hadani Ditmars

Afghanistan Falls to the Taliban

On the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, Hadani Ditmars remembers the treasures and the ruins of Afghanistan and Iraq.

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12 August, 2021 • Lawrence Joffe

World Picks: August 2021

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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8 August, 2021 • Moustafa Daly

Beirut Drag Queens Lead the Way for Arab LGBTQ+ Visibility

Moustafa Daly talks to leaders in Lebanon’s creative and LBGTQ community about the drag queen scene.

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8 August, 2021 • Farah Abdessamad

Egypt Dreams of Revolution, a Review of “Slipping”

Mohamed Kheir’s oneiric novel takes readers on a journey around Egypt after the failed Arab Spring.

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4 August, 2021 • Jordan Elgrably

Remember 18:07 and Light a Flame for Beirut

We remember the devastating blast at the Port of Beirut last August 4th, 2020, and call for justice and restitution for its many victims.

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1 August, 2021 • Mya Guarnieri Jaradat

In Flawed Democracies, White Supremacy and Ethnocentrism Flourish

The author of The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel's New Others contrasts American white supremacy with Israeli Jewish racism.

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1 August, 2021 • Shereen Malherbe

Heba Hayek’s Gaza Memories

Shereen Malherbe reviews a new book from a first-time Gazan author based in London.

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1 August, 2021 • Iason Athanasiadis

Revolution, Democracy and the Tunisian Exception

Our correspondent in Tunis looks at President Kaïs Saïed’s un-democratic attempts to save Tunisia from collapse.

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1 August, 2021 • Heba Hayek

“Guns and Figs” from Heba Hayek’s new Gaza book

TMR presents an exclusive excerpt from the new book Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies, Heba Hayek’s vignettes of a girlhood in Gaza.

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25 July, 2021 • Wafa Shami

Wafa Shami’s Palestinian Mulukhiyah

The food blogger who launched Palestine in a Dish gives us some background on the wonderful green herbalicious recipe known throughout the Arab world.

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25 July, 2021 • TMR

Summer of ‘21 Reading—Notes from the Editors

Our editors reveal their diverse literary interests, with more than a dozen recommendations for summer reading.

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25 July, 2021 • Fadi Kattan

Fadi Kattan’s Fatteh Ghazawiya الفتة الغزاوية

A Bethlehem chef reaches back to childhood to fish out a family recipe for delicious fatteh he remembers eating in Gaza.

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