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The Mediterranean, generative yet unstable, is a site of passage and border, a space of paradise and ruin.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Saleem Haddad
An artist and "artivist" from Larache, Morocco shares two paintings that reflect his perceptions of life along the Med.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Mohamed El Metmari
In this quietly devastating short story set in Gaza, the sea offers a fleeting illusion of paradise — before the war returns.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Aisha Abdel Gawad
In this pirate-themed film, conventional narratives and terms are cleverly subverted to explore dislocation and more.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Jim Quilty
Speaking from a crossroads of Mediterranean migration and diaspora — Rome — these poems ask urgent if unanswerable questions.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Nathalie Handal
Çağlı’s poems, which travel across magical seas and through centuries, ultimately preserve a kind of mystery.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Leyla Çağlı, Mustafa Ziyalan
Dalel Ouasli recounts the mythistorema of the Mediterranean, from its ancient origins to contemporary narratives.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Jordan Elgrably
In this short story translated from Greek, a ferry ride across the Bosphorus becomes a reckoning with a life left behind.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
In a crowded bar on the Calabrian coast, love and shame grow side by side as a child learns what it means to belong.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Emanuela Anechoum
Dhifi, an artist who embraces imperfection and chance, talks about his latest concept, an inverted Mediterranean.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Naima Morelli
Mount Athos and a scrolling screen collapse into a shifting sea of image and memory.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Xloi Karnezi
Each book listed explores the Mediterranean in its own way; sometimes it commands center stage, at others, it lingers in the background.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Rana Asfour
