Poet, author and artist Aram Saroyan remembers what it was like growing up as the son of a...
19 APRIL 2021 • By Joyce Zonana
No other instrument entrances quite like the ‘ud. Sherifa Zuhur presents a portrait of the world's notable ‘ud...
21 MARCH 2021 • By Rana Haddad
Drummer and author John Densmore recalls the mastery and the mysticism of his late friend Hani Naser.
21 MARCH 2021 • By TMR
Mischa Geracoulis shares the story of an art project among refugee children that helped Mahmoud Ismail through hard...
14 MARCH 2021 • By Alia Mossallam
Hundreds of French and Anglophone academics are speaking out against what they call the French government’s “conspiracy theory”...
14 MARCH 2021 • By
Claire Launchbury writes of one man's long search for the truth about Lebanon's civil war, cut short by...
14 MARCH 2021 • By Claire Launchbury
Hadani Ditmars remembers what Baghdad was like following the second Gulf War in 2003, when she toured Abu...
14 MARCH 2021 • By Mohja Kahf
International aid worker and writer Farah Abdessamad has been traveling to Yemen for work since 2014. This is...
7 MARCH 2021 • By Farah Abdessamad
Culture critic and filmmaker Mara Ahmed deconstructs three versions of an opéra-ballet to get at the heart of...
28 FEBRUARY 2021 • By Fadi Kattan
Ammiel Alcalay remembers an American original, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who was also the publisher and doyen of City...
24 FEBRUARY 2021 • By Rayyan Al-Shawaf
Francisco Letelier on the lingering memories of Dune as a metaphor for a struggling planet.
14 JANUARY 2021 • By Farah Abdessamad
The MAGA movement is not a cause but a consequence of GOP policies, and its instantaneous vanishing with...
14 JANUARY 2021 • By Maece Seirafi
