تقويم الشتات
من بيت والديها في دمشق، تصف ديمة البيطار قلعجي ما استرجعته من ذكريات طفولتها، وتحدثنا عن أدب المنفى السوري في أوروبا، ثم تعود لتنظر إلى ابنتها بعيني العائدة بعد غياب أحد عشر سنة إلى سوريا.
Essays
طريق البيت
جزء من نص طويل يعمل عليه الكاتب دلير يوسف عن عودته إلى دمشق في بدايات العام ٢٠٢٥، بعد أقل من شهر على سقوط نظام بشار الأسد، يحكي فيه عن العودة إلى بيت طفولته، والمشي في شوارع المدينة والجلوس في المقاهي والبارات. كذلك يحكي عن الطعام وعن التلوث في المدينة وعن…
A Kashmiri in Cashmere
After going to Cashmere in Washington state last summer, Nafeesa Syeed wrote the following essay on colonization, displacement, and belonging.
Neither Here Nor There
Envisioning innovative new futures that challenge conventional thinking and inspire transformative possibilities.
Leaving Abdoh, Finding Chamran
Salar Abdoh reflects on returning to Iran, burdened by injustice and a desire to reconnect with a culture that has normalized disinformation.
Home is Elsewhere: On the Fictions of Return
Feeling that her childhood home differed from her birthplace, writer Mai Al-Nakib perceives home as more imaginary than real.
Exile and Hope: Sudanese creatives and the question of home
Sudanese artists in exile are keeping their identity and heritage alive while they await the chance to return home.
Arabic Jazz and Yazz Ahmed: A Music Between Homelands
Arabic jazz challenges stereotypes amid rising xenophobia in the West and colonial violence in the Arab world.
A Letter To My Cruel Lover: Tripoli
My Tripoli breathes gunpowder, // … the city where mosques are bombed and streets get emptied. // … How can my Lebanon be their Lebanon?
The anger and sadness I brought back from Damascus. And the urge to shave my head
Batoul Ahmad, during a ten-year absence from Damascus, reconstructs her sense of home through memory and self-discovery in Australia.
Looking for a Job, Living and Dying in Iran: The Logistics of Going Back
Not even escalating tensions between Israel and Iran could stop one wayward Iranian from returning home to see his father one last time.
Strangers at Home: Young Palestinians in Israel
Young Palestinian citizens of Israel navigate life facing a unique position as both insiders and outsiders.
Return to Iraq: Sama Alshaibi’s ‘طرس’
Sama Alshaibi’s new project focuses on the spatial, material, and technological fragments that narrate the story of a place and its people.
Germany’s Most Rightwing Parliament Since WWII—Liberals Panic, Immigrants Roll Their Eyes
Laila Abdalla, a young Egyptian journalist transplanted to Germany, sizes up the rightward drift of the country.
Four Gates to the Hereafter: On The Dissenters
The Egyptian author of an epistolary novel — his first in English — meditates on whether his work will join the canon of world literature.