Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the...
The Arab world is, demographically speaking, a very young region: close to two thirds of the population in the Arab countries is under the age of twenty-five (in the United States, the ratio is...
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From Chaos in Libya to the Edge of ISIS in Northern Iraq
SCENES FROM THE LIBYAN CIVIL WAR The chief government minder’s announcements would come without warning, interrupting the loud elevator music that played non-stop through the intercom system of the...
View ArticleMona Eltahawy: How to Fight the Patriarchy
“Someone had turned the lights off in my mind.” As a woman in Saudi Arabia, as a girl there, you have two options: You either lose your mind or you become a feminist. So I kind of lost my mind, and...
View Article“Rhythmic Exercise”
A few days after the sunset-to-sunrise curfew went into effect, the members of this jolly family began to feel run-down. Their apartment had all the needed emergency supplies—food, water, first-aid...
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New Arabic Fiction: 5 Contemporary Short Stories
Issue 11 of The Common Mag is dedicated to new fiction from across the Arab world. The following stories are among the 24 featured in the issue. There will be a celebration of the issue, and the...
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10 Books By Arab Women Writers That Should Be Translated
On your local bookshop shelves, you’re not likely to find much literature translated from the original Arabic. You are likely to find what scholar Lila Abu-Lughod has called the “saving Muslim women”...
View ArticleChronicle of a Last Summer
In the morning Uncle came. He brought the newspaper and sat plonk on the armchair without kissing anyone or saying hello. Look at this. They are floating it, but no doubt they will adopt it. He put his...
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Life in the Arab World as a White Lesbian Feminist
As an American-born feminist and a lesbian, Chivvis Moore is the last person that many people would expect to be an advocate for Arab culture, which is so often thought of as anti-American,...
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Is Hillary Clinton a Modern-Day Cleopatra?
From her first appearance in national politics, Hillary Clinton was pilloried by mainstream and fringe sources alike. By the time she was running for president, accusations of corruption had flowered...
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Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the...
The Arab world is, demographically speaking, a very young region: close to two thirds of the population in the Arab countries is under the age of twenty-five (in the United States, the ratio is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
From Chaos in Libya to the Edge of ISIS in Northern Iraq
SCENES FROM THE LIBYAN CIVIL WAR The chief government minder’s announcements would come without warning, interrupting the loud elevator music that played non-stop through the intercom system of the...
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Mona Eltahawy: How to Fight the Patriarchy
“Someone had turned the lights off in my mind.” As a woman in Saudi Arabia, as a girl there, you have two options: You either lose your mind or you become a feminist. So I kind of lost my mind, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Rhythmic Exercise”
A few days after the sunset-to-sunrise curfew went into effect, the members of this jolly family began to feel run-down. Their apartment had all the needed emergency supplies—food, water, first-aid...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Arabic Fiction: 5 Contemporary Short Stories
Issue 11 of The Common Mag is dedicated to new fiction from across the Arab world. The following stories are among the 24 featured in the issue. There will be a celebration of the issue, and the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
10 Books By Arab Women Writers That Should Be Translated
On your local bookshop shelves, you’re not likely to find much literature translated from the original Arabic. You are likely to find what scholar Lila Abu-Lughod has called the “saving Muslim women”...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Chronicle of a Last Summer
In the morning Uncle came. He brought the newspaper and sat plonk on the armchair without kissing anyone or saying hello. Look at this. They are floating it, but no doubt they will adopt it. He put his...
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