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
A new anthology from Saqi Books explores LGBTQ+ Arabs and their families from ten points of view.
20 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Zein Murib
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
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
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
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
