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Resilient Cartographies: Histories of the Persian Gulf

Resilient Cartographies: Histories of the Persian Gulf

History writing opens the door for the writers and their readers to see the Persian Gulf as a...

7 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Todd Reisz
Memories of Palestine through Contemporary Media

Memories of Palestine through Contemporary Media

Malu Halasa reviews a memoir of Palestine of both emotional and geographic proportions.

7 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Malu Halasa
Yassini Girls—a Powerful Yet Flawed Account of Historical Trauma

Yassini Girls—a Powerful Yet Flawed Account of Historical Trauma

Natasha Tynes reviews a Palestinian novel that thoughtfully examines intergenerational trauma, making it an insightful and worthwhile read.

31 JANUARY 2025 • By Natasha Tynes
No Place to Be: On Wadih Saadeh’s A Horse at the Door

No Place to Be: On Wadih Saadeh’s A Horse at the Door

Alex Tan reviews the new chronology of poems from Lebanon's bard of war and exile, Wadih Saadeh, translated...

24 JANUARY 2025 • By Alex Tan
Radwa Ashour’s Classic Granada Now in a New English Edition

Radwa Ashour’s Classic Granada Now in a New English Edition

Ashour’s "Granada" trilogy arrives during the ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, and a long arc completes...

17 JANUARY 2025 • By Guy Mannes-Abbott
In Killing Gilda Yahya Gharagozlou Tells an Intriguing Iranian Tale

In Killing Gilda Yahya Gharagozlou Tells an Intriguing Iranian Tale

A review of a book that offers a portrait of a royal dynasty whose decline has significantly shaped...

10 JANUARY 2025 • By Azadeh Moaveni
Art History and the United Arab Emirates

Art History and the United Arab Emirates

Sophie Kazan Makhlouf challenges misconceptions that an authoritarian government precludes politically-critical cultural production.

10 JANUARY 2025 • By Jelena Sofronijevic
Maya Abu Al-Hayyat’s Defiant Exploration of Palestinian Life

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat’s Defiant Exploration of Palestinian Life

Zahra Hankir reviews Hazem Jamjoum's English translation of Palestinian novelist Maya Abu Al-Hayyat's novel "No One Knows Their...

20 DECEMBER 2024 • By Zahra Hankir
Criticizing a Militaristic Israel is not Inherently Antisemitic

Criticizing a Militaristic Israel is not Inherently Antisemitic

The conflation of antisemitism with political criticism of Israel not only stifles free speech; it makes Jews less...

20 DECEMBER 2024 • By Stephen Rohde
Barrack Zailaa Rima’s Beirut Resists Categorization

Barrack Zailaa Rima’s Beirut Resists Categorization

Rima offers readers an understanding of Beirut as both a single city and a city multiplied, a geographic...

6 DECEMBER 2024 • By Katie Logan
Palestinian Artists Reflect on the Role of Art in Catastrophic Times

Palestinian Artists Reflect on the Role of Art in Catastrophic Times

Multimedia and performing artists gather in Marseille for the 8th Biennale "Sin," on how to be a Palestinian...

1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Nina Hubinet
The Walls Have Eyes—Surveillance in the Algorithm Age

The Walls Have Eyes—Surveillance in the Algorithm Age

Iason Athanasiadis talks to Petra Molnar about her new book on automated decision-making technologies that facilitate institutional violence...

18 OCTOBER 2024 • By Iason Athanasiadis
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