A new Palestinian drama set in 1948, 1978, 1988, and 2022 sets aside Zionist myths and recognizes historical injustices.
5 MARCH 2026 • By Jordan Elgrably
After years of searching, an exiled Afghan journalist encounters a beloved poet with whom she shares the loss of country.
27 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Freshta Jalalzai
In anticipation of TMR 58 • MOTHER TONGUE, this new poem explores the painful self-silencing of a language.
27 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Shahé Mankerian
In the latest This Arab Life column, Amal Ghandour ponders: who does a life actually belong to once you (or they) are dead?
27 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
Our reviewer examines the Arab melancholy at the heart of Saleem Haddad’s second novel.
20 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Layla AlAmmar
Many women and men long to raise children of their own, but is it primordial to be a biological parent?
20 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Lina Mounzer
Mother tongues, endlessly chimeric, endlessly beguiling, can become both dangerous baggage and precious commodity.
In the wake of the genocide in Gaza, a Palestinian writer loses her words — until she finds her way back to language in another tongue.
6 March 2026 • By Sarah Aziza
In which a young artist goes beyond words, beyond language, to create meaning with signs and symbols of her own creation.
6 March 2026 • By Naima Morelli
In anticipation of TMR 58 • MOTHER TONGUE, this new poem explores the painful self-silencing of a language.
27 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Shahé Mankerian
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 latest This Arab Life column, Amal Ghandour ponders: who does a life actually belong to once you (or they) are dead?
27 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
Many women and men long to raise children of their own, but is it primordial to be a biological parent?
20 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Lina Mounzer
A reflection on how multiple languages in a family become a perfect conduit for grief and acceptance.
6 MARCH 2026 • By FARAH AHAMED
EssayA writer questions whether physical ailments — numbness, stuttering, uncontrollable trembling — may in fact stem from a cultural silencing, in this case of Turkish identity and belonging.
6 MARCH 2026 • By AMY OMAR
EssayA writer traces the circuitous journey of a mother tongue, noting that “accidents of geography and family history” made English, and not Arabic, her first language.
6 MARCH 2026 • By MAI AL-NAKIB
FictionPalestinian writer Majd Aburrub dissects the exquisite loneliness of losing one's mother tongue.
6 MARCH 2026 • By MAJD ABURRUB
A simple debate over a spoon opens a space in which a group of Syrian migrants reclaim an identity on the brink of erasure.
6 MARCH 2026 • By ZEINAB GHASSAN KHADDOUR
EssayAfter years of searching, an exiled Afghan journalist encounters a beloved poet with whom she shares the loss of country.
27 FEBRUARY 2026 • By FRESHTA JALALZAI
