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Bombed streets and Palestinian suffering contrast with Orwell’s language, showing how terms like “security operations” sanitize violence.
17 OCTOBER 2025 • By Alex Demyanenko
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19 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By TMR
A new book examines the history of colonization and the ongoing parallels between the conflicts in Artsakh and...
19 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Gabriel Polley
The Orchards of Basra weaves together elements of dreams, memory, and forgotten philosophy, insisting that some stories cannot...
12 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Jacob Wirtschafter
Maps are narratives of the past, present, and future, powerful chronicles of presence and absence, ownership and theft,...
29 AUGUST 2025 • By Mai Al-Nakib
Arabic, France’s second-most spoken language, was featured at this year’s Avignon Festival, but is Arabic still the outsider's...
15 AUGUST 2025 • By Georgina Van Welie
Shady Lewis' new novel skewers British bureaucracy while exploring the immigrant experience with black humor and surreal situations.
15 AUGUST 2025 • By Valeria Berghinz
As planet temperatures rise, architects in the Middle East eschew Western fixes and revitalize local solutions.
1 AUGUST 2025 • By Iason Athanasiadis
Matt Broomfield's new book explores the history of the Rojava revolution in Syrian Kurdistan as a model for...
11 JULY 2025 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Gurnah's new novel, "Theft," is a post-colonial exploration of Tanzania, immigration, and the relationship between Africa and the...
9 JULY 2025 • By Philip Grant
Nejmeh Khalil Habib's latest teaches us that while there are and will always be survivors of horrors, the...
30 MAY 2025 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould
