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13 June, 2025

Cairo: A Downtown in Search of Lost Global City Status

A photo festival backed by a real estate developer puts the spotlight on Cairo's Downtown under transformation.

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13 June, 2025

From A World Not Ours to a Land Unknown

Exiled Palestinian Mahdi Fleifel’s fiction debut "To a Land Unknown" provides a masterful bookend to his documentary on growing up in Ain el-Hilweh.

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30 May, 2025

Doaa: From a Dreamworld to the Ashes of Displacement

A Gaza writer's creative, hopeful sister struggles to get her degree and build a family in the midst of a grinding war.

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30 May, 2025

An Intimate History of Violence: Beirut Under Siege in Nejmeh Khalil Habib’s A Spring that Did Not Blossom 

Nejmeh Khalil Habib's latest teaches us that while there are and will always be survivors of horrors, the trauma is never forgotten.

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TMR 51 • MEZZE

Mama’s Kitchen

A writer looks back on formative memories of her mother and grandmother in the kitchen and wonders about the value of women’s work — and whether love’s labor is ever truly lost.

Centerpiece

Art of the Palestinian Poster, curated by Malu Halasa, is part of the 2025 Shubbak Festival.

Latest Essays & Fiction

Art & Photography • 13 June, 2025

Cairo: A Downtown in Search of Lost Global City Status

A photo festival backed by a real estate developer puts the spotlight on Cairo's Downtown under transformation.

Arabic • 9 June, 2025

مقال لسارة شاهين: لا مكان إلا القاهرة، لا حيلة مع القاهرة

عن القاهرة القديمة وشوارعها، تكتب سارة شاهين بلغة رصينة وممتعة في الوقت نفسه، من داخل أوتوبيس نقل عام، أو من «استقبال النساء»، تتغير نظرتها نحو…

Centerpiece • 6 June, 2025

Mama’s Kitchen

A writer looks back on formative memories of her mother and grandmother in the kitchen and wonders about the value of women’s work — and…

Fiction • 6 June, 2025,

Always Beware of Dogs by Samir Kacimi — An Excerpt

By creatively blending elements of fantasy, Kacimi's new novel offers readers a fresh lens through which to view contemporary life in Algeria.

Art • 6 June, 2025

Victorious Decolonization in the Work of Joyce Joumaa

Lebanese Canadian writer and visual artist Joyce Joumaa’s videos demonstrate that the colonized are not passive recipients of their condition.

Books • 6 June, 2025

“Inside the Margins”: Centering Tirailleurs in Bandes Dessinées

The graphic novels or bandes dessinées out of Africa are a line in the sand of protest and rebellion against European colonialism.