The Bīylmawn festival has recently made a comeback but not everyone is pleased with the highly stylized and...
12 JULY 2024 • By Brahim El Guabli
While studying abroad in Alexandria, Bel Parker becomes a butcher's apprentice to immerse herself in the local language...
5 JULY 2024 • By Bel Parker
A community theatre company working in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine empowers women who often are not professional actors.
21 JUNE 2024 • By Victoria Lupton
In his play, Youssef El Guindi debates whether art is merely a distraction or if it can truly...
7 JUNE 2024 • By Yussef El Guindi
Al Jadid editor Elie Chalala finds that Lebanese intellectuals’ defense of expat director Wadji Mouawad contrasts with state...
7 JUNE 2024 • By Elie Chalala
Continuously displaced Palestinians redefine "home" in Osama Kahlout’s surprising photographs from the war on Gaza.
31 MAY 2024 • By Nadine Aranki
Empathy requires knowledge and collective action to avoid blindly following the crowds, writes Nancy Kricorian.
24 MAY 2024 • By Nancy Kricorian
In her latest essay, writer Jenine Abboushi reminds us that the ethnic cleansing and destruction of Palestinian society...
17 MAY 2024 • By Jenine Abboushi
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
Photographs of Iraqis imply doom due to generational violence, even in happy pictures.
3 MAY 2024 • By Nabil Salih
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
The assault on Gaza is the longest and deadliest Israeli offensive to date, and the worst in targeting...
3 MAY 2024 • By Ahmed Isselmou
