Neshat’s work reminds us that Iran has always contained multitudes: radical artists, secular thinkers, feminists, modernists.
16 JANUARY 2026 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
Amal Ghandour helps parse these Orwellian times from the perspective of an Arab writer living between Beirut, Amman...
10 OCTOBER 2025 • By Amal Ghandour
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
Gaza was meant from the start of the genocide to be bombed into rubble, to be made uninhabitable...
14 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Chris Hedges
Susan Abulhawa gave a speech at Oxford Union as a resolution passed determining "Israel is an apartheid state...
6 DECEMBER 2024 • By Susan Abulhawa
A year after committing ethnic cleansing, Azerbaijan prepares to host COP29 with little pushback from mainstream media.
25 OCTOBER 2024 • By Lucine Kasbarian
A Beiruti interrogates her country's perennial condition with its neighbor in the aftermath of October 7 and the...
4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Amal Ghandour
When religious fanatics in Lebanon aren’t fighting one another, they make the best war comrades against modernity, secularism,...
6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Joumana Haddad
An Arab playwright in London reacts to the canceling of Palestinian voices six months into a horrific war.
12 APRIL 2024 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
After the ICJ ruling on Israel, it is in its best interests to redefine its cause to one...
3 MARCH 2024 • By Amal Ghandour
Novelist Mai Al-Nakib opines that despite the bombs and the bullets, Arab voices and cultural narratives are on...
6 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Mai Al-Nakib
Former ambassador Chas Freeman, Jr. argues that we have entered a new era in which players are shifting...
29 MAY 2023 • By Chas Freeman, Jr.