Cassette Tapes Once Captured Egypt’s Popular Culture
Mariam Elnohazy reviews "Media of the Masses," a new book on the history of Egyptian cassette culture.
Mariam Elnohazy reviews "Media of the Masses," a new book on the history of Egyptian cassette culture.
Deborah Kapchan reviews the new book on translation from Anna Aslanyan.
Montpellier's venerable Mediterranean film festival announces retrospectives and avant-premières.
El Habib Louai talks to artist Mo Baala about his latest exhibition of collages and overpaintings at Marrakesh's Galery 127.
Laëtitia Soula talks to Talaat El Singaby, founder of one of the world's largest annual guitar festivals.
Ghazi Gheblawi reviews "The Darkness Inside," a literary thriller set in the world of social media and foreign wars.
In a new three-part travel series on Israel/Palestine, Jenine Abboushi lays bare the surveillance state.
Aimee Dassa Kligman reviews the latest novel from the exiled author of "The Yacoubian Building."
Writing from Montpellier, Angélique Crux highlights four musical performances in a Middle Eastern arts festival that has no equal in Europe.
Nora Ounnas Leroy talks to three Moroccan artists participating in a Montpellier incubator project through the Festival Arabesques.
For her 11th TMR music column, Melissa Chemam interviews the Algerian-French diva Samira Brahmia.
Francisco Letelier, a non-Muslim, reviews Omar Mouallem's "Praying to the West" from the outside looking in.
Eman Quotah reviews the new poetry collection by Jordanian Palestinian American author Laila Halaby.
Nada Ghosn interviews the curator and Lebanese photographers exhibiting in the Abbey de Jumièges, north of Paris.
Iason Athanasiadis reviews the new Ibrahim al-Koni translation of a story that recounts Islam's conquest of North Africa.