The World Grows Blackthorn Walls
A new poem by Sholeh Wolpé from the forthcoming collection, Abacus of Loss, University of Arkansas Press 2022.
A new poem by Sholeh Wolpé from the forthcoming collection, Abacus of Loss, University of Arkansas Press 2022.
We accompany a family fleeing civil war for safe harbor, in a short story by Aida Y. Haddad.
Chef Fadi Kattan, fed up with walls, Covid and strife with Israel, shares a classic Palestinian recipe.
Artist Tom Young who divides his time between Beirut and London, paints in Hammam Al Jadid during its revival after 70 years.
Frances Zaid describes in epistolary fashion the language barriers in her blooming relationship (leading to marriage and kids) with a three-time refugee from the Yarmouk Camp.
Critic Ziad Suidan meditates on the meaning of the labyrinth and the walls that can separate us but also remind us of our shared history inside the hammam.
Ifat Gazia remembers her native Kashmir and wonders why her family, like countless others, was uprooted, displaced and forced to live like homeless people in their own land.
Egyptian author and feminist Mona Eltahawy publishes daily tweets calling out the patriarchy. Hiba Moustafa reviews her new book.
Reviewer Eman Quotah finds that Omaima Al-Khamis' "singular imagination shines through in an erudite and sensual tale that captures a complex moment in Islamic history."
BookFabulous' Rana Asfour delivers capsule reviews of three recent North African novels from Libya and Morocco.
In anticipation of Sunday's Oscars, in which another Palestinian film has been nominated, Jordan Elgrably talks to Palestinians and Israelis about their films and activism.
The first of many new resource guides to the arts of a particular culture, in this case, Armenian. Readers are invited to contribute their own recommendations.
Mischa Geracoulis reads Last Rites about the death of William Saroyan and remembers her grandfather who instilled in her the strength of Armenian culture.
Poet, author and artist Aram Saroyan remembers what it was like growing up as the son of a famous Armenian American writer.
Travel the world, meet people, see great places, without ever leaving the comfort of your screen…welcome to the pandemic!