Refugee camps, control, and dispossessed lives by artists Heba Tannous, Mahmoud Alhaj, Tayseer Barakat, Alaa Albaba, and photographer...
6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Malu Halasa
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
Omar Zahzah argues that Meta censors free speech for Palestine because it is a US dominant corporate platform...
6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Omar Zahzah
Maged Mandour’s new book examines El-Sisi's exercise and abuse of power in post-revolutionary Egypt.
6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Elias Feroz
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
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
Ammiel Alcalay writes of the gatekeepers who have affected every aspect of his writing, cultural, and public life.
6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Ammiel Alcalay
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
In this short story, an Iranian conscript keeps disappearing from duty. The natural world leaves clues of his...
5 JULY 2024 • By Alireza Iranmehr
In the Libyan village “Hell,” temperatures soar to unimaginable heights, and war breaks out over a parking space...
5 JULY 2024 • By Mohammed Alnaas
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
Travel through the center of the world this summer from the comfort of your couch when you pick...
5 JULY 2024 • By Rana Asfour