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Leaving Abdoh, Finding Chamran

Leaving Abdoh, Finding Chamran

Salar Abdoh reflects on returning to Iran, burdened by injustice and a desire to reconnect with a culture...

2 MAY 2025 • By Salar Abdoh
Exile and Hope: Sudanese creatives and the question of home

Exile and Hope: Sudanese creatives and the question of home

Sudanese artists in exile are keeping their identity and heritage alive while they await the chance to return...

2 MAY 2025 • By Ati Metwaly
Home is Elsewhere: On the Fictions of Return

Home is Elsewhere: On the Fictions of Return

Writer Mai Al-Nakib explores the fictions of homecoming and the potentialities of exile.

2 MAY 2025 • By Mai Al-Nakib
Arabic Jazz and Yazz Ahmed: A Music Between Homelands

Arabic Jazz and Yazz Ahmed: A Music Between Homelands

Arabic jazz challenges stereotypes amid rising xenophobia in the West and colonial violence in the Arab world.

2 MAY 2025 • By Gabriel Polley
A Letter To My Cruel Lover: Tripoli

A Letter To My Cruel Lover: Tripoli

Poet Lara Kassem explores her conflicted feelings about home, identity, and longing.

2 MAY 2025 • By Lara Kassem
The anger and sadness I brought back from Damascus. And the urge to shave my head

The anger and sadness I brought back from Damascus. And the urge to shave my head

Batoul Ahmad, during a ten-year absence from Damascus, reconstructs her sense of home through memory and self-discovery in...

2 MAY 2025 • By Batoul Ahmad
Looking for a Job, Living and Dying in Iran: The Logistics of Going Back

Looking for a Job, Living and Dying in Iran: The Logistics of Going Back

Not even escalating tensions between Israel and Iran could stop one wayward Iranian from returning home to see...

2 MAY 2025 • By Raha Nik-Andish
Strangers at Home: Young Palestinians in Israel

Strangers at Home: Young Palestinians in Israel

Young Palestinian citizens of Israel navigate life facing a unique position as both insiders and outsiders.

2 MAY 2025 • By Sophia Didinova
“Return to Ramallah,” an excerpt from Too Soon by Betty Shamieh

“Return to Ramallah,” an excerpt from Too Soon by Betty Shamieh

Shamieh's novel invites the audience to reflect on notions of home and the multifaceted nature of belonging.

2 MAY 2025 • By Betty Shamieh
Why Love, War & Resistance?

Why Love, War & Resistance?

Can love transform in the face of bombs, drones, AI surveillance, snipers, annexation, and expulsion?

7 MARCH 2025 • By Malu Halasa
Love and Resistance in Online Persian Dating Shows

Love and Resistance in Online Persian Dating Shows

From blindfolding potential dates to threating them with cockroaches, Iranian YouTube dating game shows go viral and the...

7 MARCH 2025 • By Malu Halasa
Mous Lamrabat

Mous Lamrabat

Mous Lamrabat’s latest solo show explores the emotional weight of displacement, memory, identity, and love.

7 MARCH 2025 • By Naima Morelli
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