A Gazan theatre artist, constantly endangered by the onslaught of Israeli planes, drones and bombs, writes from the...
11 DECEMBER 2023 • By Hossam Madhoun
What could have been the end of life was instead a milestone that led to the writer's greatest...
3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Karim Shamshi-Basha
For the 40th day from his death, Youssef Rakha considers fellow writer Khaled Khalifa in the context of...
7 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Youssef Rakha
Dallia Abdel-Moniem has always loved her native city, but when she returned from abroad 10 years ago, it...
23 OCTOBER 2023 • By Dallia Abdel-Moniem
Moroccan Amazigh scholar Brahim El Guabli learned that his family in Ouarzazate lost their home in the earthquake...
11 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By Brahim El Guabli
A Moroccan scholar from the earthquake region, Aomar Boum, and his UCLA colleague Sarah A. Stein, provide more...
11 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By Aomar Boum
What happens when public universities begin shutting down entire area studies departments, and learning foreign languages becomes a...
28 AUGUST 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
Bethlehem-born poet Ahmad Almallah describes his trials and tribulations getting published in English in the United States.
21 AUGUST 2023 • By Ahmad Almallah
The writer's visit to a Cairo internet store to renew her internet service proves to be an out...
24 JULY 2023 • By Sarah Eltantawi
Lou Heliot presents a portrait of three engagé novelists who make literature the locus of their resistance.
17 JULY 2023 • By Lou Heliot
Jordanian Rabee’ Zureikat is on a mission to restore severed links to the Arab past by reviving a...
10 JULY 2023 • By Reem Halasa
A walk through London’s Hackney Marshes calls forth stories of Gaza, the Nile, the Sindhu River and the...
19 JUNE 2023 • By Bint Mbareh