Writer and film executive Bavand Karim meditates on Iranian American identity and an alternative vision for self-realization in...
15 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Bavand Karim
An Egyptian American daughter recalls the enduring love her immigrant father harbored for Los Angeles and the American...
15 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Noreen Moustafa
Arie Akkermans reviews an Iraqi American's exhibitions as they attempt to recreate missing and destroyed artifacts taken from...
7 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Even as the despotic rulers of post-revolution Egypt attempt to remake greater Cairo, hoping to gloss over the...
24 JANUARY 2022 • By Yahia Dabbous
Former prisoner and Egyptian writer in exile Ahmed Naji contemplates what it means to be a "brown writer"...
15 JANUARY 2022 • By Ahmed Naji
Photographer, documentarian and journalist Iason Athanasiadis shares images from more than 10 years of reporting from Afghanistan to...
15 JANUARY 2022 • By Iason Athanasiadis
"What a British person imagined Syria or the Middle East to be ... was more important than what...
6 DECEMBER 2021 • By Rana Haddad
Jenine Abboushi inaugurates a new monthly column with a story about a prominent family that lost everything in...
29 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Jenine Abboushi
British-Syrian novelist Rana Haddad compares her experience growing up in Syria with the way people beyond Syria's borders...
29 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Rana Haddad
When friends in Abu Dhabi asked Deborah Williams how she could support MBS by going to “his” festival,...
22 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Deborah Williams
Art critic Arie Amaya-Akkermans summons the gods of art and poetry as he reviews the life work of...
19 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Novelist Omar El Akkad ("What Strange Paradise", "American War") warns that wildfires and other climate disasters are creating...
15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Omar El Akkad