A writer-artist sits in a café in Tehran with a failing internet connection, risking life and limb to...
20 JUNE 2025 • By Amir
Somewhere in Tehran, a child feels the same incomprehensible terror as foreign missiles fall, just as the writer...
20 JUNE 2025 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
A Gaza writer's creative, hopeful sister struggles to get her degree and build a family in the midst...
30 MAY 2025 • By Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi
Since October 7, Palestinian women in the West Bank have experienced increasing intimidation, imprisonment and violence.
16 MAY 2025 • By Lynzy Billing
Poet and essayist Mosab Abu Toha who grew up in Gaza under the bombs has won the 2025...
9 MAY 2025 • By Jordan Elgrably
Anna Badkhen argues that the moral bankruptcy of American intellectuals…will only kick us down the hole deeper, faster.
2 MAY 2025 • By Anna Badkhen
The Egyptian author of an epistolary novel — his first in English — meditates on whether his work...
4 APRIL 2025 • By Youssef Rakha
Filmmaker Yasmin Fedda and arts activist Daniel Gorman share their reflections of a three-day visit to Syria early...
24 JANUARY 2025 • By Yasmin Fedda
A son of Hama — a former prisoner and now a TV correspondent — takes his first steps...
13 DECEMBER 2024 • By Zaher Omareen
Lebanon may have survived yet another Israeli onslaught but the people emerge scathed and timorous, as if from...
29 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Tarek Abi Samra
The Turkish government has reintegrated Ahlat into the national narrative, but its history is more complex than acknowledged.
29 NOVEMBER 2024 • By William Gourlay
Rima Rantisi depicts the uncertainty and anxiety of Israel's assault on Lebanon, illustrating its impact on daily life.
22 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Rima Rantisi
