21 March, 2022 • Yossi Khen, Jeff Warner
Two Jewish activists decry hypocrisy when it comes to condemning Russian aggression against Ukraine but not Israeli aggression against Palestinians.
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21 March, 2022 • Sarah Ben Hamadi
Sarah Ben Hamadi reviews a new Tunisian feature film that weighs the successes and failures of the revolution.
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21 March, 2022 • Maha Tourbah
Guest columnist Maha Tourbah considers the advent of the Spring Equinox, Zoroastrian Nowruz and hopes for peace.
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21 March, 2022 • Melissa Chemam
Our music columnist Melissa Chemam, disturbed by the war in Ukraine, makes the link between Odesa and Beirut via DJ Sama' Abdulhadi.
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7 March, 2022 • Anna Lekas Miller
Observing the Russia-Ukraine conflict, a Lebanese American journalist in London, married to a Syrian refugee, finds the racist double standard on refugees unsettling.
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7 March, 2022 • Maryam Zar
Women's rights activist Maryam Zar reviews the memoir by a valiant survivor of ISIS who won the Nobel Peace Prize for speaking out on her experience.
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7 March, 2022 • Rana Asfour
Rana Asfour reviews the Booker Prize-nominated novel by Nadifa Mohamed based on the true story of a wrongly-convicted Somali in 1950s Cardiff.
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24 February, 2022 • Jordan Elgrably
Letter from the Editor: Russia’s Attack on Ukraine seen from European and Middle Eastern Vantage Points
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21 February, 2022 • Melissa Chemam
This month TMR's music critic Melissa Chemam discusses Palestinian arts and "cultural resistance" at Liwan in Nazareth, where vocalist Haya Zaatry recently performed.
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21 February, 2022 • Hanan Fathi, Essam M. Al-Jassim
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.
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21 February, 2022 • Nada Ghosn
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.
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14 February, 2022 • Fadi Zaghmout, Rana Asfour
In this excerpt of the banned Jordanian novel "Laila," introduced by Rana Asfour and translated by Hajer Almosleh, readers get a sense of Fadi Zaghmout's prose and purpose.
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7 February, 2022 • Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Arie Akkermans reviews an Iraqi American's exhibitions as they attempt to recreate missing and destroyed artifacts taken from the National Museum of Iraq after the American invasion in 2003.
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7 February, 2022 • Jordan Elgrably
Jordan Elgrably reviews the recent feature film from directors Rana Kazkaz and Anas Khalaf.
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