Weekly Archives

The Orchards of Basra weaves together elements of dreams, memory, and forgotten philosophy, insisting that some stories cannot...

12 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Jacob Wirtschafter

New SWANA films respond to genocide and starvation while urging viewers to act beyond passive consumption of the...

12 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Yassin El-Moudden

Maps are narratives of the past, present, and future, powerful chronicles of presence and absence, ownership and theft,...

29 AUGUST 2025 • By Mai Al-Nakib

Literary conversations, films, exhibitions, concerts and several new recommended books for September to add to your reading list.

29 AUGUST 2025 • By TMR

The new feature from the Nasser brothers takes place in the context of Gaza's siege, but well before...

29 AUGUST 2025 • By Karim Goury

Palestinian embroidery is dynamic, and artists, designers, and makers are constantly finding new ways to innovate and reinterpret...

22 AUGUST 2025 • By Joanna Barakat

How do you practice self-acceptance the next time your mother admonishes you over a cookie or your body...

22 AUGUST 2025 • By Lina Mounzer

Arabic, France’s second-most spoken language, was featured at this year’s Avignon Festival, but is Arabic still the outsider's...

15 AUGUST 2025 • By Georgina Van Welie

Ali Cherri’s Marseille show, on view until January 4, 2026, deconstructs the museum from the inside out.

15 AUGUST 2025 • By Naima Morelli

Shady Lewis' new novel skewers British bureaucracy while exploring the immigrant experience with black humor and surreal situations.

15 AUGUST 2025 • By Valeria Berghinz

The long history of Egyptian women's activism created the intellectual and political background for revolution.

8 AUGUST 2025 • By Jasmin Attia

A novel that explores taboo subjects with exceptional craftsmanship, while reconstructing the “self” from pain and fragmented identities.

8 AUGUST 2025 • By Ahmed Naji