Nahrain Al-Mousawi
Nahrain Al-Mousawi is a writer, researcher, and educator living in Morocco. She often writes on migration and borders within and out of Africa, on protests in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as on popular and literary culture from the MENA region.
Items by Nahrain Al-Mousawi
Beirut Noir, edited by Iman Humaydan, is the newest anthology in Akashic Books’ popular noir series. Up to 75 cities have been featured, from Brooklyn to Havana, and Beirut...
A 2014 bestseller in France before being translated this year, Riad Sattouf’s The Arab of the Future is the first part of a graphic memoir tracing Riad’s early childhood...
In 2003 and 2004, Nina Gren was living in the Dhaheish refugee camp, which had become subject to extensive violence. Camp residents experienced curfews, house demolitions, nightly arrests, shootings,...
The recent scale of tragedies in the Mediterranean— now rather morbidly dubbed “the sea cemetery”—have elicited media narratives on sunk migrant boats that often conceal policies and practices that...
The recent Saudi-led bombing campaign against Yemen has been reduced to a simplistic narrative of a Sunni-Shia divide driving national conflict – reminiscent of an essentialist “clash of civilizations”...
Baddawi (2015) is a coming-of-age graphic novel by Chicago-based artist Leila Abdelrazaq about a boy raised in a refugee camp in northern Lebanon; it’s a poignant tale based on...
Science fiction from the Arab world has been capturing the attention of western audiences as of late. This year, sci-fi across the fields of literature, film and art in...
Beirut Noir, edited by Iman Humaydan, is the newest anthology in Akashic Books’ popular noir series. Up to 75 cities have been featured, from Brooklyn to Havana, and Beirut...
A 2014 bestseller in France before being translated this year, Riad Sattouf’s The Arab of the Future is the first part of a graphic memoir tracing Riad’s early childhood...
In 2003 and 2004, Nina Gren was living in the Dhaheish refugee camp, which had become subject to extensive violence. Camp residents experienced curfews, house demolitions, nightly arrests, shootings,...
The recent scale of tragedies in the Mediterranean— now rather morbidly dubbed “the sea cemetery”—have elicited media narratives on sunk migrant boats that often conceal policies and practices that...
The recent Saudi-led bombing campaign against Yemen has been reduced to a simplistic narrative of a Sunni-Shia divide driving national conflict – reminiscent of an essentialist “clash of civilizations”...-graphic-novel01.jpg)
Baddawi (2015) is a coming-of-age graphic novel by Chicago-based artist Leila Abdelrazaq about a boy raised in a refugee camp in northern Lebanon; it’s a poignant tale based on...
Science fiction from the Arab world has been capturing the attention of western audiences as of late. This year, sci-fi across the fields of literature, film and art in...