Joelle M. Abi-Rached reflects on the failures of psychiatry and psychiatric language in addressing the trauma arising from...
5 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Joelle Abi-Rached
A writer looks back on formative memories of her mother and grandmother in the kitchen and wonders about...
6 JUNE 2025 • By Lina Mounzer
From blindfolding potential dates to threating them with cockroaches, Iranian YouTube dating game shows go viral and the...
7 MARCH 2025 • By Malu Halasa
Francisco Letelier connects the devastation of fire and climate change with the decimation of Gaza, and other disasters...
7 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Francisco Letelier
A writer from Cairo imagines a chance encounter between two writers in Prague enamored of Kafka.
6 DECEMBER 2024 • By Mansoura Ez-Eldin
A bombing in Gaza destroys an entire family except for the protagonist of the short story and his...
1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Ghassan Ghassan
Jenin artist Khaled Jarrar deploys photography, video, installations, films and performative interventions to explore contemporary power dynamics and...
4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Khaled Jarrar
Maha Al Aswad sheds light on Egyptian writer Mohammad Hafez Ragab, a literary figure of the 1960s whose...
6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Maha Al Aswad
A stage director declines producing a play about a child tragically murdered during a genocide, fearing she may...
7 JUNE 2024 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
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
Abdelrahman ElGendy asks, how do you hold your grief in a language that's been its main perpetrator?
3 MARCH 2024 • By Abdelrahman ElGendy
Artist and writer Francisco Letelier ponders the earth and the future of his native Chile as it debates...
4 JUNE 2023 • By Francisco Letelier
