Essays

Genocide

Genocide

In her latest essay, writer Jenine Abboushi reminds us that the ethnic cleansing and destruction of Palestinian society...

17 MAY 2024 • By Jenine Abboushi
Memory Archive: Between Remembering and Forgetting

Memory Archive: Between Remembering and Forgetting

Mai Al-Nakib explores memory, forgetting, and writing through the lenses of Woolf, Proust, and a Wim Wenders film.

3 MAY 2024 • By Mai Al-Nakib
Regarding the Photographs of Others—An Iraqi Journey Toward Remembering

Regarding the Photographs of Others—An Iraqi Journey Toward Remembering

Photographs of Iraqis imply doom due to generational violence, even in happy pictures.

3 MAY 2024 • By Nabil Salih
A Proustian Alexandria

A Proustian Alexandria

Claiming a past that never existed previously in the city, nostalgia overwhelms the inhabitants of Alexandria, writes Mohamed...

3 MAY 2024 • By Mohamed Gohar
Sargon Boulus Revisited: Encomium to an Assyrian Poet

Sargon Boulus Revisited: Encomium to an Assyrian Poet

Youssef Rakha revisits his fascination with Sargon Boulos who managed to live out poetic Arabness in exile as...

3 MAY 2024 • By Youssef Rakha
The Elephant in the Box

The Elephant in the Box

Revisiting her memories of Egypt's January 25 revolution, Asmaa Elgamal finds that denying common sense is the worst...

3 MAY 2024 • By Asmaa Elgamal
Bloodied Dispatches—Ahmed Isselmou on the Gaza Carnage

Bloodied Dispatches—Ahmed Isselmou on the Gaza Carnage

The assault on Gaza is the longest and deadliest Israeli offensive to date, and the worst in targeting...

3 MAY 2024 • By Ahmed Isselmou
Not Forgotten, Not (All) Erased: Palestine’s Sacred Shrines

Not Forgotten, Not (All) Erased: Palestine’s Sacred Shrines

Palestine's shrines are a part of a heritage that has been intentionally erased since the Nakba of 1948,...

3 MAY 2024 • By Gabriel Polley
Freedom—Ruminations of a Syrian Refugee

Freedom—Ruminations of a Syrian Refugee

It is obvious that we will never forget; but it is unclear how to proceed with “un-forgetting" writes...

3 MAY 2024 • By Reem Alghazzi
The Art of Letting Go: On the Path to Willful Abandonment

The Art of Letting Go: On the Path to Willful Abandonment

Nashwa Nasreldine explores the importance of holding onto failed attempts to capture fleeting moments for the sake of...

3 MAY 2024 • By Nashwa Nasreldin
Malak Mattar: No Words, Only Scenes of Ruin

Malak Mattar: No Words, Only Scenes of Ruin

Malak Mattar's artwork at the Venice Biennale evokes a multi-sensory experience that demands to be felt, writes Nadine...

26 APRIL 2024 • By Nadine Nour el Din
Man Is a Cause: Wisam Rafeedie & the Palestinian Revolutionary Novel

Man Is a Cause: Wisam Rafeedie & the Palestinian Revolutionary Novel

A classic prison novel by Wisam Rafeedie recounts the revolutionary fervor of Palestinian political prisoners.

19 APRIL 2024 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould
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