Literature and Arts from the Center of the World
Novelist Omar El Akkad ("What Strange Paradise", "American War") warns that wildfires and other climate disasters are creating the conditions for a global refugee crisis the world is not prepared for.
Ramzy Baroud writes of a whole generation of Palestinians in the West Bank who are caught up in an impossible dilemma.
Art critic Sagi Refael reviews painted images from the 2014 Gaza war that he calls "one of the most significant politically-charged art series of recent years."
After surviving an Egyptian prison and obtaining asylum in the United States, Ahmed Naji contemplates wasta and standing in line.
Critic Ziad Suidan meditates on the meaning of the labyrinth and the walls that can separate us but also remind us of our shared history inside the hammam.
Longtime Marseille resident and crime novelist François Thomazeau describes his French city of choice.
Photojournalist Iason Athanasiadis shares his remembrance and unpublished photos from the decisive battle of the 18 days that shook the world.
Farah Abdessamad remembers the Dead Sea and the myth of Bahamut.
Palestinian attorney and a founder of the human rights organization Al-Haq, Raja Shehadeh takes us on a journey of memory and history, from Ramallah to Jerusalem.
Three American artists, Daliah Ammar, Sandow Birk and Jos Sances, share their work, created during the Trump administration.
In this wide-ranging essay, the writer revisits life before and after the civil war, participates in Lebanon's revolution, imagines the country's monetary implosion, and contemplates the Port of Beirut explosion—all while weighing the social terms of Lebanon's political renewal.