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28 August, 2023 • Thérèse Soukar Chehade

Laila Halaby’s The Weight of Ghosts is a Haunting Memoir

Thérèse Soukkar Chehade reviews Laila Halaby's memoir about coming to terms with the trauma of losing her first son.

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28 August, 2023 • Jordan Elgrably

The End of Arabic and the Dumbing Down of America

What happens when public universities begin shutting down entire area studies departments, and learning foreign languages becomes a luxury?

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21 August, 2023 • Hisham Al-Najjar

“Kill Yusuf”—a short story by Hisham Al-Najjar

In a modern interpretation of Eros and Thanatos, "Kill Yusuf" reveals how thwarted love can lead to unexpected consequences.

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21 August, 2023 • Arie Amaya-Akkermans

On Museums and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage

Arie Amaya-Akkermans on the history of war, colonialism, memory and how museums strive to preserve and display artifacts and art.

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21 August, 2023 • Jonathan Ofir

What’s the Solution for Jews and Palestine in the Face of Apartheid Zionism?

Jonathan Ofir on the new book by Daniel Boyarin that questions Jewish identity while weighing Palestinian freedom from injustice.

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21 August, 2023 • Ahmad Almallah

Open Letter: On Being Palestinian and Publishing Poetry in the US

Bethlehem-born poet Ahmad Almallah describes his trials and tribulations getting published in English in the United States.

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14 August, 2023 • Albert Swissa, Gil Anidjar

Bound Together: My Longings for Ishmael

Albert Swissa reminds us that Isaac had a brother who was expelled and erased, with his mother Hagar, from the house of his father.

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14 August, 2023 • Brahim El Guabli

Translation and Indigeneity—Amazigh Culture from Treason to Revitalization

Brahim El-Guabli identifies how Amazigh activists have engaged with translation to revitalize their threatened language and culture.

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14 August, 2023 • Chas Freeman, Jr.

The Middle East is Once Again West Asia

Ambassador Chas Freeman on the dynamism of West Asia and the west's failing geopolitical grip on "the greater Middle East."

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14 August, 2023 • Mohammad Rabie

Books That Will Chase me in the Afterlife

Novelist and TMR's Arabic Editor Mohammad Rabie peruses his bookshelf and comes up with a tantalizing book list for the discerning reader.

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7 August, 2023 • Ilan Pappé

Ilan Pappé on Tahrir Hamdi’s Imagining Palestine

Israeli-British historian Ilan Pappé argues that the agency and resilience of the Palestinians shines in "Imagining Palestine."

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7 August, 2023 • Karim Goury

Sofia Alaoui’s Animalia is a Supernatural Thriller Shot in Morocco

As she nears the end of her pregnancy, Itto and her in-laws find their lives turned upside down by a supernatural event.

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7 August, 2023 • Farah-Silvana Kanaan

The Soil and the Sea: The Revolutionary Act of Remembering

Daniele Rugo's documentary investigates Lebanon's devastating civil war and ruminates on the conflict's unmarked mass graves.

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31 July, 2023 • Sasha Moujaes

What Palestine Brings to the World—a Major Paris Exhibition

Sasha Moujaes tours an expansive exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe, talking to the curator and several Palestinian artists.

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31 July, 2023 • Matthew Broomfield

Can the Kurdish Women’s Movement Transform the Middle East?

Matthew Broomfield reviews a book on the Kurdish women's movement, which challenges hierarchical, patriarchal society.

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