Literature and Arts from the Center of the World
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”
On the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, Hadani Ditmars remembers the treasures and the ruins of Afghanistan and Iraq.
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!
Moustafa Daly talks to leaders in Lebanon’s creative and LBGTQ community about the drag queen scene.
Mohamed Kheir’s oneiric novel takes readers on a journey around Egypt after the failed Arab Spring.
We remember the devastating blast at the Port of Beirut last August 4th, 2020, and call for justice and restitution for its many victims.
The author of The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel's New Others contrasts American white supremacy with Israeli Jewish racism.
Shereen Malherbe reviews a new book from a first-time Gazan author based in London.
Our correspondent in Tunis looks at President Kaïs Saïed’s un-democratic attempts to save Tunisia from collapse.
TMR presents an exclusive excerpt from the new book Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies, Heba Hayek’s vignettes of a girlhood in Gaza.
The food blogger who launched Palestine in a Dish gives us some background on the wonderful green herbalicious recipe known throughout the Arab world.
Our editors reveal their diverse literary interests, with more than a dozen recommendations for summer reading.
A Bethlehem chef reaches back to childhood to fish out a family recipe for delicious fatteh he remembers eating in Gaza.
El Habib Louai on the Moroccan novel that sizes up and lampoons a country coming into its own in the internet age.
Maryam Zar reviews the new biography from Kai Bird, examining the one-term president who went on to change the world.