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.
14 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Fadi Zaghmout, Rana Asfour
Rana Asfour provides an intimate look at two new Arab novels in translation, from Lebanese and Syrian authors.
10 JANUARY 2022 • By Rana Asfour
A family tragedy (we all have them), powerful forms of devotion and love, and a common political approach to “defeated peoples” in the world—all revisited over a weekend in Munich.
27 DECEMBER 2021 • By Jenine Abboushi
Jenine Abboushi inaugurates a new monthly column with a story about a prominent family that lost everything in Palestine.
29 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Jenine Abboushi
Rana Asfour reviews a new memoir about the legendary Dajani family, charged by a Turkish sultan with watching over King David's Tomb in Jerusalem, but exiled in 1948.
29 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Rana Asfour
British-Syrian novelist Rana Haddad compares her experience growing up in Syria with the way people beyond Syria's borders see her country.
29 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Rana Haddad
Despite its repressive regimes, Saudi Arabia has produced a number of world-class novelists — several of whom have seen their best work banned. Rana Asfour reviews three in English translation.
22 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Rana Asfour
Jordan Elgrably Imagine, if you will, being put on trial for publishing poems and stories extolling the values of human rights and equality — or rotting in prison as…
04 OCTOBER 2021 • By Jordan Elgrably
The author of The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel's New Others contrasts American white supremacy with Israeli Jewish racism.
01 AUGUST 2021 • By Mya Guarnieri
Jenine Abboushi reviews the recent anthology of essays on socialism in the context of Palestinian resistance.
06 JUNE 2021 • By Jenine Abboushi
Rana Haddad interviews Istanbullu novelist Nektaria Anastasiadou about the little-known Rum community of Istanbul featured in her new novel.
21 FEBRUARY 2021 • By Rana Haddad
Arab/Muslim countries of the Middle East and North Africa have largely failed to fight racism and discrimination against black people. To go deeper into the DNA of Arab/Muslim racism, TMR…
15 NOVEMBER 2020 • By TMR, Khawla Ksiksi
