Essays

The Passive Voice of Light: On Grief and Imperial Grammar

The Passive Voice of Light: On Grief and Imperial Grammar

A Palestinian teacher remembers the sister who taught her the passive voice, not knowing that grammar would be...

10 JULY 2026 • By Hanan Habashi
Palestine is the World in its Future Tense

Palestine is the World in its Future Tense

The 61st Venice Biennale is one of many cultural institutions beginning to crack under the weight of their...

26 JUNE 2026 • By Selma Dabbagh
Searching for Perseus

Searching for Perseus

A writer returns to her homeland — Lebanon — after years abroad, tracing the fault lines between memory...

19 JUNE 2026 • By Lara Atallah
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
 
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