In this tragicomic debut novel, a queer Palestinian refugee prepares to come out during his extravagant birthday dinner party.
6 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Ziyad Saadi
Hasan Hadi delivers a remarkable neorealist fable about childhood, obedience, and survival under dictatorship.
6 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Alex Demyanenko
Lena El-Malak’s Stolen Nation is a robust examination of a neglected aspect of the Palestinian “question": reparations.
6 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Selma Dabbagh
These on-the-ground notes from Iran reject oversimplification and one-sided narratives: "There is layer upon layer."
23 JANUARY 2026 • By M. Nateqnuri
Women's bodies have always been policed but Souseh reminds us that we don't have to buy into the narrative.
23 JANUARY 2026 • By Lina Mounzer
Despite its strong performances and scenography, Rajiv Joseph's play remains a western telling of the Iraq War.
23 JANUARY 2026 • By Nazli Tarzi
What could be more central to any discussion of peace and justice than Palestinian freedom and sovereignty in our lifetimes?
Palestinian writer Nasser Abu Srour, finally free after 32 years in Israeli prisons, speaks to interviewer Rebecca Ruth Gould.
30 January 2026 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould
Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum keeps returning to the same questions: How is space regulated, surveilled, and colonized? And what remains concealed?
30 January 2026 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Shira Wolfe's cinematic poetry reads like scenes from a movie, describing a period of her life spent in Belgrade...
1 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Shira Wolfe
In "The Years of Blood" a Nigerian poet grapples with the violence of a nation struggling to find peace amid frequent bloodshed.
1 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Adedayo Agarau
In "This Arab Life," Amal Ghandour looks at the absurdity of Trump's so-called "Board of Peace" for Gaza.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
Women's bodies have always been policed but Souseh reminds us that we don't have to buy into the narrative.
23 JANUARY 2026 • By Lina Mounzer
FictionDanger looms over this story, set in pre-Nakba Palestine, as a mother, distrustful of a foreigner's presence, tends to her son.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By SAHAR MUSTAFAH
EssayIn today's dissonant reality, many countries feel like they need protection from Israel.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By SHERYL ONO
Israeli settlement plans threaten a monastery, green spaces, and even a cemetery.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By A MOM FROM BETHLEHEM
EssayRaja Shehadeh offers a simple but impossible answer to this simple but impossible question: "And yet we must."
30 JANUARY 2026 • By RAJA SHEHADEH
EssayCoffee, gas, warmth — basic things to many, but in Gaza, they become rarities.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By ESRAA ABO QAMAR
EssayA young writer reports that safe transportation remains dangerously scarce.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By MARIAM MUSHTAHA
