Essays Archives

15 November, 2022 • Sara Mokhavat

Sara Mokhavat's first passion was for football and the Persepolis team, but being female in Iran put the kibosh on that.

15 November, 2022 • Aomar Boum

Socio-cultural anthropologist Aomar Boum meditates on the rebel football phenomenon of Morocco's ultras.

31 October, 2022 • Jenine Abboushi

In this, the second of a three-part travel series on Israel/Palestine, Jenine Abboushi continues her dystopic journey.

31 October, 2022 • Shreya Parikh

Shreya Parikh joins an authentic ritual for the birth of the Prophet in her Tunis medina.

15 October, 2022 • Kamin Mohammadi

British-Iranian writer Kamin Mohammadi is a keen observer of the women-led movement that is roiling Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini.

When an oppressive, insulting cleric makes life unbearable at a university campus in Tehran, students rebel. Pandemonium ensues.

15 October, 2022 • Salma Ahmad Caller

Salma Ahmad Caller reflects on curating a unique museum-quality exhibition of postcards and objects orientalizing women

15 October, 2022 • Nadia Al-Sakkaf

Facing death threats from the Houthis, minister of education Nadia Al-Sakkaf, editor in chief of the Yemen Times, flees Yemen.

15 October, 2022 • Fouad Mami

Fouad Mami meditates on a nearly forgotten heroine of Algeria's war for independence, who was memorialzied in an Assia Djebar novel.

15 October, 2022 • Ibrahim Fawzy

Ibrahim Fawzy remembers the late, great Egyptian feminist author, doctor and activist Nawal El-Saadawi.

26 September, 2022 • Jenine Abboushi

In a new three-part travel series on Israel/Palestine, Jenine Abboushi lays bare the surveillance state.

15 September, 2022 • Ahmed Farouk

Ahmed Farouk, the Arabic translator of Günter Grass, W. G. Sebald and Rosa Luxemburg, among others, struggles with Walter Benjamin.

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