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Khaled Jarrar: Artist At Work

Khaled Jarrar: Artist At Work

Jenin artist Khaled Jarrar deploys photography, video, installations, films and performative interventions to explore contemporary power dynamics and...

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Khaled Jarrar
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
“An Inherited Offense”—a Levantine story on the island of Leros

“An Inherited Offense”—a Levantine story on the island of Leros

In this short story by Nektaria Anastasiadou, the male and female terebinth trees of a Levantine childhood help...

5 JULY 2024 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
Dare Not Speak—a One-Act Play

Dare Not Speak—a One-Act Play

A stage director declines producing a play about a child tragically murdered during a genocide, fearing she may...

7 JUNE 2024 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
Memory Archive: Between Remembering and Forgetting

Memory Archive: Between Remembering and Forgetting

Mai Al-Nakib explores memory, forgetting, and writing through the lenses of Woolf, Proust, and a Wim Wenders film.

3 MAY 2024 • By Mai Al-Nakib
Past Disquiet at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris

Past Disquiet at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris

Curators Rasha Salti and Kristine Khouri have assembled a formidable exhibition on museums and solidarity movements using art...

1 APRIL 2024 • By Kristine Khouri
Al-Thakla—Arabic as the Original Mourner

Al-Thakla—Arabic as the Original Mourner

Abdelrahman ElGendy asks, how do you hold your grief in a language that's been its main perpetrator?

3 MARCH 2024 • By Abdelrahman ElGendy
LSD in the Arab World: Porn, Sade, and the Next-Door Flasher

LSD in the Arab World: Porn, Sade, and the Next-Door Flasher

In LSD's centerpiece, Joumana Haddad argues that with a dire need for political and economic reforms in most...

4 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Joumana Haddad
Broken Home: Britain in the Time of Migration

Broken Home: Britain in the Time of Migration

Malu Halasa tells the story of refugees seeking asylum in Britain who brave the dangerous waters of the...

5 MARCH 2023 • By Malu Halasa
“What Are You Doing in Berlin?”—a short story by Ahmed Awny

“What Are You Doing in Berlin?”—a short story by Ahmed Awny

Egyptian writer Ahmed Awny divigates between fiction and reality in this decentering short story.

15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Ahmed Awny
Prison Letters From a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row

Prison Letters From a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row

With his letters from maximum security on death row, Tiyo Attallah Salah-El reveals what the prison experience is...

15 OCTOBER 2021 • By Tiyo Attallah Salah-El
Displaced: From Beirut to Los Angeles to Beirut

Displaced: From Beirut to Los Angeles to Beirut

Ara Oshagan I am walking along the narrow and labyrinthine Armenian neighborhoods of Bourj Hammoud in Beirut—spaces with...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Ara Oshagan
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