Essays

Washing Off the Rosewater Tint

Washing Off the Rosewater Tint

The Library of Arabic Literature was forced to shutter, ending a vital injection of Arabic into the bloodstream...

29 MAY 2026 • By Chip Rossetti
The Art of Giving: Relief Efforts in Beirut

The Art of Giving: Relief Efforts in Beirut

Six years into Lebanon’s collapse, Beirut’s cultural centers struggle to cope with an unprecedented displacement crisis.

17 APRIL 2026 • By Jim Quilty
Four Women in Berlin

Four Women in Berlin

At a Berlin residency, a Gazan writer finds unexpected kinship among women bound by cross-border grief.

17 APRIL 2026 • By Alaa Alqaisi
The Souls of War Folk

The Souls of War Folk

The civilizational supremacy of the West is under threat, insisted U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a...

3 APRIL 2026 • By Ayça Çubukçu
“Iran After the Fire”—a Speculative Ethnography

“Iran After the Fire”—a Speculative Ethnography

A writer imagines Iran one year in the future, after the bombs have stopped falling, and the resulting...

3 APRIL 2026 • By Shahram Khosravi
 
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