Criticism

Cheese Costs Money: On Paul E. Erdman’s The Crash of ’79
By Luchezar Boyadjiev
Originally published in Icons
Hysteria as Form: Adeeb el Shabbab and his mind of steel
By Hassan Khan
Originally published in Icons
The Yacoubian Building: A drama of novel proportions
By Ursula Lindsey
Originally published in Icons
A Conversation with Orhan Pamuk
By Lex ter Braak
Originally published in Interview
Flame Wars
By Alaa Abd El Fattah
Originally published in Envy
Marina Warner
By Omar Berrada
Originally published in Interviews
Going to Sea in a Sieve: Trade routes of the literary vernacular
By Curtis Brown
Originally published in Tourism
Ethnographic Tales: Subjectivity = the new objectivity
By Christopher Pinney
Originally published in Tourism
The Revolution Will Not Be Fictionalized
By Mahmoud Othman
Originally published in #25
The Particular Believer: Nawal El Saadawi
By Bidoun
Originally published in #25
The Colors of Infamy
By Albert Cossery
Originally published in #25
Artists’ Magazines
By Alexander Provan
Originally published in Sports
Dreams that Matter
By Anna Della Subin
Originally published in Squares
The Clash of Images
By Yasmine El Rashidi
Originally published in Squares
It Was a Publisher’s Idea
By Bidoun
Originally published in Library
Naguib Mahfouz’s White Linen Suit
By Anand Balakrishnan
Originally published in Objects
Yalo
By Dena Yago
Originally published in Objects
Rogers
By Nael Eltoukhy
Originally published in Objects
Missing Soluch
By Max Weiss
Originally published in Objects
In the Arab World… Now
By Hassan Khan
Originally published in Pulp
Signal and Noise
By Zachary Hooker
Originally published in Pulp
Wolves of the Crescent Moon
By Sophia Al-Maria
Originally published in Pulp
Metro
By Ahmed Nagy
Originally published in Pulp
A Blue Hand
By Arshia Sattar
Originally published in Pulp
Haj to Utopia
By Hussein Omar
Originally published in Diaspora
The Colonel
By Christopher de Bellaigue
Originally published in Diaspora
Notes on a Century
By Issandr El Amrani
Originally published in Diaspora
The East, the West, and Sex
By Scott Long
Originally published in Noise
Photography and Egypt
By Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Originally published in Noise
Abnaa Al Gebelawi
By Youssef Rakha
Originally published in Noise
Omar Sleiman: Beirut book bazaar
By Lana Daher
Originally published in Interviews
Fake Memoirs and Truth As Style: Are you there, God?
By George Pendle
Originally published in Rumor
Bidune: Foreign policy through the lens of Dune
By Anand Balakrishnan
Originally published in Technology
Chicago
By Youssef Rakha
Originally published in Technology
Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran
By George Scialabba
Originally published in Technology
Make Everything New
By Nader Vossoughian
Originally published in Failure
HADETU
By Sayed Mahmoud
Originally published in Glory
Hollow Land
By Sreemati Mitter
Originally published in Glory
I'Jaam
By Haig Aivazian
Originally published in Glory
I Will Draw A Star on Vienna’s Forehead
By fdz
Originally published in Glory
Desiring Arabs
By Eyad Houssami
Originally published in Glory
Harry Potter and the Rim of Fire
By Tom Morton
Originally published in Kids
Islam and the West
By Leland de la Durantaye
Originally published in Kids
Rice Pudding For Two
By Sahar Mandour
Originally published in Kids
The Turban & the Hat
By Hassan Khan
Originally published in Kids
Soft Readers Prefer Hard Covers
By Shumon Basar
Originally published in Soft Power
In the Presence of Absence: Present without leave
By Robyn Creswell
Originally published in Soft Power
Utopia
By Yasmine El Rashidi
Originally published in Soft Power
Hamlet’s Arab Journey
By Hussein Omar
Originally published in Soft Power
Political Science
By Bidoun
Originally published in Library
The Natural Orders
By Bidoun
Originally published in Library
Mohammed Mrabet: Fish soup
By Sean Gullette
Originally published in Interviews
John Wilcock: Interview 101
By Zachary Hooker
Originally published in Interviews
Daniyal Mueenuddin: Stranded gentry
By Elizabeth Rubin
Originally published in Interviews
Zaki Nusseibeh: Before and after
By Jonathan Shainin
Originally published in Interviews
Hobb Beiruti
By Youssef Rakha
Originally published in Flowers
A Life Full of Holes
By Sean Gullette
Originally published in Flowers
Tayy El Khiyaam
By Ursula Lindsey
Originally published in Bazaar II
The Strong Horse
By Issandr El Amrani
Originally published in Bazaar II
White Masks
By Suzy Hansen
Originally published in Bazaar II
How to Wreck a Nice Beach
By Alexander Provan
Originally published in Bazaar II
Untitled Tracks
By Alexander Provan
Originally published in Bazaar II
Giorgio Agamben
By Leland de la Durantaye
Originally published in Interviews
Have Pamphlet, Will Travel: Mid-list authors pushing not-so-recently published books
By Gary Dauphin
Originally published in Bazaar II
The Future Takes Forever: Becoming FM-2030
By Benjamin Tiven
Originally published in Noise
Revolution For Kids: Dar El Fata El Arabi, Recollected
By Hassan Khan, Mohieddin Ellabbad, Nawal Traboulsi
Originally published in Noise
The Night Journey of Ahmed Bouanani
By Anna Della Subin
Rude Pieties: Six Glimpses of Hervé Guibert
By Bruce Hainley, Moyra Davey, Wayne Koestenbaum, Lia Gangitano, Christine Pichini, Hedi El Kholti, Janique Vigier
Girl on a Train: Getting Real with Fatima Daas
By Momtaza Mehri
A Private Ocean: Iman Mersal and Maru Pabón in Conversation
By Maru Pabón, Iman Mersal
Fractures in the Medium: Kaveh Akbar and Anahid Nersessian in Conversation
By Anahid Nersessian, Kaveh Akbar
The Garden
By Yasmin Zaher
Thank God He Wasn’t French: Notes on Edward Said (1935–2003)
By Tirdad Zolghadr
Originally published in Icons
On Edward Said: The Stupidest Word: Christopher Hitchens reflects on his friend and foe
By Christopher Hitchens, Emran Qureshi
Originally published in Icons
Sacha Baron Cohen: Borat vs. Kazakhstan: In my country, there is problem
By Brian Ackley
Originally published in Tourism
A Conversation with Homi K. Bhabha
By Tirdad Zolghadr
Originally published in Interview
A Conversation with Elaine Scarry
By Curtis Brown
Originally published in Interview
A Conversation with Ahmed Alaidy
By Mustafa Zikri
Originally published in Interview
Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East
By Hassan Khan
Originally published in Interview
A Portrait of the Jihadist as a White Negro: Or, the Ballad of John Walker Lindh
By Gary Dauphin
Originally published in Failure
Dear Catastrophe Architect: Albert Speer and the Garden of Spandau
By Benjamin Tiven
Originally published in Failure
Loud, Insistent, and Dumb: Shaabiyat and the return of the moulid as charged referent
By Hassan Khan
Originally published in Failure
Sharing Ladders: Notes on the group show as format
By Hassan Khan
Originally published in Failure
The Magic Kingdom: How not to think about Dubai
By Shumon Basar
Originally published in Failure
No Food, No Drink, Just Muslims on TV
By Shumon Basar
Originally published in Glory
Objectum-Love At First Sight
By Alexander Provan
Originally published in Objects
Harry Potter and the Rim of Fire
By Tom Morton
Originally published in Kids
Call Me Soft
By Sarah Rifky
Originally published in Soft Power
Soft Readers Prefer Hard Covers
By Shumon Basar
Originally published in Soft Power
You Are the Expert: Actual transcript of Navad (90), Iran’s most popular TV show
By Sohrab Mohebbi
Originally published in Sports
Identity Bazaar
By Hassan Khan, Nav Haq, Mahmoud Khaled, Sherif El Azma, Nida Ghouse
Originally published in Bazaar
Soda as Politick: When they think of democracy they think of Coca-Cola
By Curtis Brown
Originally published in Rumor
Archetypal Intellectuals, Devastated Revolutionaries, Kitsch Mythologies, and a Writer Who Dared to Look at Herself: The Disenchanted
By Hassan Khan
Originally published in Rumor
How the Art World Prospers by Never Explaining Itself: The buck doesn’t even slow down here
By Mary Blair Taylor
Originally published in Rumor
Automatic Rumor
By Chris Csikszentmihályi
Originally published in Rumor
Afterthought: The open secret
By Tamer El-Leithy
Originally published in Rumor
One Life to Live: The political economy and violence of Second Life
By Gary Dauphin
Originally published in Technology
Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads: Making worlds with Wikipedia
By Curtis Brown
Originally published in Technology
Body Tech: Friday Night Lights and family television
By Bruce Hainley
Originally published in Technology
A Conversation with Wayne Koestenbaum
By Bruce Hainley
Originally published in Interview
Static: Anonymous emails on refusal, revolution, and representation
By Bidoun
Originally published in Noise
Satellite of Hob: An HDTV guide
By Sophia Al-Maria
Originally published in Noise
The East, the West, and Sex
By Scott Long
Originally published in Noise
Photography and Egypt
By Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Originally published in Noise
Beauty as the Beast: The erotic terror of femininity
By Sophia Al-Maria
Originally published in Pulp
In the Arab World… Now
By Hassan Khan
Originally published in Pulp
On Georges Perec’s Un Homme Qui Dort
By Ken Okiishi
Originally published in Objects
In the Beginning There was Souffles: Reconsidering Morocco’s most radical literary quarterly
By Issandr El Amrani
Originally published in Glory
Envy as Consumer Credo and Political Temperament
By Tirdad Zolghadr
Originally published in Envy
Medinet Nasr: Unresolved amnesia, self-imagining and the marginal center
By Clare Davies
Originally published in Envy
Responding to War: …while waiting for a work by Steve McQueen
By Tom Holert
Originally published in Envy
How to Write About Africa II: The Revenge
By Binyavanga Wainaina
Originally published in Bazaar II
Glory: The soft bigotry of great expectations
By Binyavanga Wainaina
Originally published in Technology
Never Forget to Remember: On disaster and tourism
By Ken Okiishi
Originally published in Tourism
Permanent Vacation: The making of someplace out of no-place
By Brian Ackley
Originally published in Emirates Now
Tropical Baroque: A rough and partial history of popular furniture
By Tirdad Zolghadr
Originally published in Emirates Now
Tent-City: Two worlds, an automaton, and a skyscraper
By Tony Chakar
Originally published in Icons
Atatürk: National rhetoric verses contemporary art in Turkey
By Erden Kosova
Originally published in Icons
Architectural Reading: Cairo’s Al Azhar Park
By Sadia Shirazi
Originally published in Hair
Shelf Life: Archives and the economics of suspicion
By Tirdad Zolghadr
Originally published in We Are Old
Be the Flower in the Gun
By Namwali Serpell, Maggie Miller
Originally published in Flowers
Potenco Al La Homoj: Esperanto: Power to the People
By Benjamin Tiven
Originally published in Squares
Bidune: Foreign policy through the lens of Dune
By Anand Balakrishnan
Originally published in Technology
The Aloha President: Barack Hussein Obama, Hawaiian Nationalist
By Gary Dauphin
Originally published in Flowers
Youssef Rakha
By May al-Ibrashy
The Delicacy of Radicalism
By Haytham El-Wardany
Book of Judges: Larry David and the War on the War on Comedy
By Gary Dauphin
South of Nothing: The Photographs of Soham Gupta
By Sukhdev Sandhu
Phoneme Riot: A Conversation with Nour Mobarak
By Jace Clayton
Rude Pieties: Six Glimpses of Hervé Guibert
By Bruce Hainley, Moyra Davey, Wayne Koestenbaum, Lia Gangitano, Christine Pichini, Hedi El Kholti, Janique Vigier
Girl on a Train: Getting Real with Fatima Daas
By Momtaza Mehri
A Private Ocean: Iman Mersal and Maru Pabón in Conversation
By Maru Pabón, Iman Mersal
Hash Is a Vegetable
By Negar Azimi, Fatima Al Qadiri, Meriem Bennani, Tiffany Malakooti
Fractures in the Medium: Kaveh Akbar and Anahid Nersessian in Conversation
By Anahid Nersessian, Kaveh Akbar
The Home Front: On Rahmaneh Rabani and Bahman Kiarostami’s Impasse
By Media Farzin

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