Reviews
Zakia Tahiri’s Number One State of Mind
Zakia Tahiri’s Number One, tackles Morocco’s moudawana (family code), sweeping legislation which overhauled the nation’s family law,... Read more
Michael Muhammad Knight’s The Taqwacores
What is religion and what is culture? What is family and what is society? What is truth and what is communal? What is right and what is wrong? In The Taqwacores,... Read more
A Cultural Mélange of Epic Proportions in The Narcicyst
The Narcicyst, a.k.a. Jamal Abdel Narcel, a.k.a. Yassin Alsalman, a.k.a. Narcy is a bonafide entertainer. A mish-mash of all things East and West, he has... Read more
Jackie Salloum's Slingshot Hip Hop
Other reviewers express surprise and feign jaded reactions to the subject of first-time director, Jackie Salloum’s Slingshot Hip Hop. But one word runs... Read more
Alicia Erian’s Towelhead
Alicia Erian’s novel, Towelhead, reads as something of an opus to Hillary Clinton’s infamous line, “It takes a village.” But Erian fills her village... Read more
Checkpoint 303 Rocks the Bay
The air is thick with gray sheesha smoke at the Pork Store Cafe in San Francisco, CA. It seems every Arab-American in the Bay between the ages of 21 and... Read more
Suheir Hammad’s breaking poems
Suheir Hammad’s breaking poems breaks ground (for Arab-American writers), breaks rules (of language), and breaks bonds (with outdated notions of... Read more
