Naima Morelli explores Istanbul’s art scene through a gallery, an art fair, and a museum retrospective.
6 JUNE 2025 • By Naima Morelli
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
A review of how some of history’s greatest civilizations' collapse presents ominous parallels with our present predicament.
23 MAY 2025 • By Iason Athanasiadis
This anthology, while celebrating last year's best literary translations, aims to highlight writing from and about a world...
9 MAY 2025 • By Lara Vergnaud
Djinns emerge in a fractured home in Istanbul, reflecting the intercultural and intergenerational tensions in Fatma Aydemir’s family...
9 MAY 2025 • By Elena Pare
Hassan Blasim’s work is not imitation. His is a voice forged in exile, and steeped in the paradoxes...
25 APRIL 2025 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
In post-regime Syria, forgiveness is not resolution—it’s a quiet demand for justice in the language of art.
18 APRIL 2025 • By Robert Bociaga
A story of a self-estranged gay adolescent navigating his identity as an Armenian in Iran and later as...
18 APRIL 2025 • By Sean Casey
An NYU professor who has frequently taught this Iraqi novel finds that two months into Trump 2.0, its...
21 MARCH 2025 • By Deborah Williams
Two new books reissue the writings of the heralded revolutionary, Ghassan Kanafani. Required reading for today.
14 MARCH 2025 • By Farah-Silvana Kanaan
In untangling her relationship to a globally beloved text, Abirached provides opportunities to experience "The Prophet" in new...
7 MARCH 2025 • By Katie Logan
In his new book, Peter Beinart proposes a single state solution that would balance equality for all Israeli...
28 FEBRUARY 2025 • By David N. Myers
