A writer's journeys, spiritual and physical, lead to a winding exploration of how to live beyond religious strictures or cultural boundaries.
22 MAY 2026 • By Sheana Ochoa
A prize-winning memoir brings alive three generations of diasporic Palestinians, from Gaza to New York City and back.
22 MAY 2026 • By N.S. Ahmed
A dark political satire draws heavily on Fanon's writing but shifts the focus from abstract revolution to lived struggle.
22 MAY 2026 • By Farah Ahamed
The ghostly presence of the Nakba casts an ominous shadow over this newly translated novel by a former Palestinian prisoner.
15 MAY 2026 • By Francesca Vawdrey
In this ode of sorts, a Lebanese writer wonders: how can love for Palestine, and yearning, still puzzle others?
15 MAY 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
An otherwise daring stage production falters when it comes to depictions — clichéd and outdated — of the Gulf.
15 MAY 2026 • By Georgina Van Welie
The Mediterranean, generative yet unstable, is a site of passage and border, a space of paradise and ruin.
By Saleem Haddad
A daughter recalls her father’s near-loss in a river, following the water outward into what the Mediterranean remembers.
By Gabriela Mitrushi
Dhifi, an artist who embraces imperfection and chance, talks about his latest concept, an inverted Mediterranean.
By Naima Morelli
A Palestinian writer 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
The civilizational supremacy of the West is under threat, insisted U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a speech in Munich.
3 APRIL 2026 • By Ayça Çubukçu
A writer imagines Iran one year in the future, after the bombs have stopped falling, and the resulting political and social landscape.
3 APRIL 2026 • By Shahram Khosravi
Three new pieces of SWANA literature, criticism and art every Friday-direct.
