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Featured Artists: “Barred From Home”

Featured Artists: “Barred From Home”

Refugee camps, control, and dispossessed lives by artists Heba Tannous, Mahmoud Alhaj, Tayseer Barakat, Alaa Albaba, and photographer...

6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Mohammad Hafez Ragab: Upsetting the Guards of Cairo

Mohammad Hafez Ragab: Upsetting the Guards of Cairo

Maha Al Aswad sheds light on Egyptian writer Mohammad Hafez Ragab, a literary figure of the 1960s whose...

6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Maha Al Aswad
Meta’s Community Standards as a Tool of Digital Settler Colonialism

Meta’s Community Standards as a Tool of Digital Settler Colonialism

Omar Zahzah argues that Meta censors free speech for Palestine because it is a US dominant corporate platform...

6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Omar Zahzah
Egypt’s Gatekeeper — President or Despot?

Egypt’s Gatekeeper — President or Despot?

Maged Mandour’s new book examines El-Sisi's exercise and abuse of power in post-revolutionary Egypt.

6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Elias Feroz
Who Decides What Makes for Authentic Middle East Fiction?

Who Decides What Makes for Authentic Middle East Fiction?

In Nektaria Anastasiadou's experience, agents, publishers and editors often have peculiar ideas about what constitutes Middle East fiction.

6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
Lebanon’s Holy Gatekeepers of Free Speech

Lebanon’s Holy Gatekeepers of Free Speech

When religious fanatics in Lebanon aren’t fighting one another, they make the best war comrades against modernity, secularism,...

6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Joumana Haddad
My Life Among the Gatekeepers

My Life Among the Gatekeepers

Ammiel Alcalay writes of the gatekeepers who have affected every aspect of his writing, cultural, and public life.

6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Ammiel Alcalay
“Dear Sniper” — a short story by Ali Ramthan Hussein

“Dear Sniper” — a short story by Ali Ramthan Hussein

Gatekeepers of Baghdad decide who lives, who dies, during 2019 protests against high unemployment, state corruption, and poor...

6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Ali Ramthan Hussein
“Firefly”—a short story by Alireza Iranmehr

“Firefly”—a short story by Alireza Iranmehr

In this short story, an Iranian conscript keeps disappearing from duty. The natural world leaves clues of his...

5 JULY 2024 • By Alireza Iranmehr
“The Mulberry Tree”—an excerpt from Altercation in Jahannam

“The Mulberry Tree”—an excerpt from Altercation in Jahannam

In the Libyan village “Hell,” temperatures soar to unimaginable heights, and war breaks out over a parking space...

5 JULY 2024 • By Mohammed Alnaas
Victoria — An Excerpt

Victoria — An Excerpt

We present the first chapter of Karoline Kamel’s debut novel in a new translation in English by Ranya...

5 JULY 2024 • By Karoline Kamel
The Top 12 Books to Read This Summer

The Top 12 Books to Read This Summer

Travel through the center of the world this summer from the comfort of your couch when you pick...

5 JULY 2024 • By Rana Asfour
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