"I grew up playing Mozart. And for me, Mozart was Syrian too. I have listened to it here and in Syria, and I played it in Syria. It's equally Syrian."

AdabOmar AlhashaniDecember 15, 2017syria, clarinet, music, identity, new york

Three Essays by Hélé Béji

by Hélé Béji with Jorge Rodriguez and Audri Augenbraum,

Hélé Béji explores the dissociative feeling of Tunisia’s transitions

Featured_big, Adab, Akhbar, FeaturedOmar AlhashaniDecember 2, 2017Hélé Béji, tunisiaComment

Tunisian Islam or Civil Islam

by Hélé Béji,

A speech by Hélé Béji on April 9, 2015

Adab, AkhbarOmar AlhashaniDecember 2, 2017Hélé Béji, HÉLÉ BÉJI, Tunisia, tunisia

Discourse of Identity: Another Violence

by Hélé Béji,

"After the victory of independence in decolonized countries, we have seen new forms of political alienation appear, which one cannot confuse with that which one calls, schematically, neocolonialism."

Adab, AkhbarOmar AlhashaniDecember 2, 2017Hélé Béji, HÉLÉ BÉJI, tunisia, Tunisia

Decolonize Time

by Hélé Béji,

“The revolution, like decolonization in its entirety, is a dissociated experience, torn from temporality, deprived of an ideal of continuity and unity.”

Adab, AkhbarOmar AlhashaniDecember 2, 2017Hele Beji, HÉLÉ BÉJI, tunisia, colonialism, decolonization, state, discourse

Altered States: Three Essays by Hélé Béji

by Jorge A. Rodríguez Solórzano and Audri Augenbraum,

Hélé Béji explores the dissociative feeling of Tunisia’s transitions

Adab, AkhbarOmar AlhashaniDecember 2, 2017politics, identity, islam, time, discourse, tunisia, tunis, philosophy

The Talking Cure

by Rima Hussein,

The search to understand oneself spans generations

AdabOmar AlhashaniDecember 2, 2017intergenerational trauma, trauma, family, life, palestine, germany, behavior, psychology, discourse

The Other Side

by Raphael Cormack,

Spiritualism in the Arabic-speaking world claimed to be scientific, progressive, and modern.

Tick Tock

AdabOmar AlhashaniDecember 2, 2017poetry, home, time, dubai

Everyone in Between

by Linnea Bennett,

Folk songs share a stage, but can they build a bridge?

Adab, FeaturedOmar AlhashaniDecember 2, 2017Turkey, syria, Linnea Bennett

تـعارف Taarof

by Mahya Soltani محیا سلطاني,

You don't literally step on my eyes...

Adab, FanOmar AlhashaniDecember 2, 2017Mahya Soltani, iran, UAE

I Feel Homesick

by Marsya Abdulghani,

What is this feeling?

Fan, AdabOmar AlhashaniDecember 2, 2017Qatar

Saturat-ed?

by Amina Soulimani,

A colonial hand fed me, or so I thought, as they spelled the words/for my illiterate granny

AdabOmar AlhashaniDecember 2, 2017morocco, mauritius, Amina Soulimani

Seven

by Yasmine Rukia,

We are the ISIS flag design/trapped/between/black and white/interpretations/of our reflection

AdabOmar AlhashaniDecember 2, 2017Yasmine Rukia, poetry, poem, poet

Interview: Zulajeh

by Yousef Hilmy and Ahmad Sahli,

In a conversation that happened between Los Angeles and Dubai, the two talked about Ahmad’s upbringing, the origins of skating in Jordan and Palestine, and his volunteer work with Skate Pal, an NGO that just built a skatepark in the West Bank.