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What Is Home?—Gazans Redefine Place Amid Displacement

What Is Home?—Gazans Redefine Place Amid Displacement

Continuously displaced Palestinians redefine "home" in Osama Kahlout’s surprising photographs from the war on Gaza.

31 MAY 2024 • By Nadine Aranki
A Small Kernel of Human Kindness: Some Notes on Solidarity and Resistance

A Small Kernel of Human Kindness: Some Notes on Solidarity and Resistance

Empathy requires knowledge and collective action to avoid blindly following the crowds, writes Nancy Kricorian.

24 MAY 2024 • By Nancy Kricorian
Genocide

Genocide

In her latest essay, writer Jenine Abboushi reminds us that the ethnic cleansing and destruction of Palestinian society...

17 MAY 2024 • By Jenine Abboushi
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
Regarding the Photographs of Others—An Iraqi Journey Toward Remembering

Regarding the Photographs of Others—An Iraqi Journey Toward Remembering

Photographs of Iraqis imply doom due to generational violence, even in happy pictures.

3 MAY 2024 • By Nabil Salih
The Elephant in the Box

The Elephant in the Box

Revisiting her memories of Egypt's January 25 revolution, Asmaa Elgamal finds that denying common sense is the worst...

3 MAY 2024 • By Asmaa Elgamal
Bloodied Dispatches—Ahmed Isselmou on the Gaza Carnage

Bloodied Dispatches—Ahmed Isselmou on the Gaza Carnage

The assault on Gaza is the longest and deadliest Israeli offensive to date, and the worst in targeting...

3 MAY 2024 • By Ahmed Isselmou
Undoing Colonial Geographies from Paris with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Undoing Colonial Geographies from Paris with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

With genocidal violence raging in Gaza and muzzling of pro-Palestinian voices throughout France, Ariella Azoulay's word is now...

1 APRIL 2024 • By Sasha Moujaes
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
The Fires of Shame; the Burn of Desire

The Fires of Shame; the Burn of Desire

Joumana Haddad lays bare the physical and cerebral journey that has led her to experience the best sex...

3 MARCH 2024 • By Joumana Haddad
Tears of the Patriarch

Tears of the Patriarch

An exclusive excerpt from Dina Wahba's book "Counter Revolutionary Egypt" describes how the lachrymose president manipulates the public.

4 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Dina Wahba
A Treatise on Love

A Treatise on Love

When disaster strikes Maryam Haidari between Tunis and Tehran, the past seven years of her life as a...

4 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Maryam Haidari
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