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
Megan Marshall on living with things lost in the Caldor Fire and revisiting Henry David Thoreau.
15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Megan Marshall
In which the editor of "Poetic Justice: An Anthology of Contemporary Moroccan Poetry" remembers her introduction to life...
8 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Deborah Kapchan
Gaza’s small size, its misery, and continued vulnerability belie its profound significance, which has always been misunderstood and...
15 OCTOBER 2021 • By Ivar Ekeland
Ramzy Baroud writes of a whole generation of Palestinians in the West Bank who are caught up in...
15 OCTOBER 2021 • By Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud presents an excerpt of the memoir by former Israeli prisoner and attorney Khalida Jarrar.
15 OCTOBER 2021 • By Ramzy Baroud
Ara Oshagan I am walking along the narrow and labyrinthine Armenian neighborhoods of Bourj Hammoud in Beirut—spaces with...
15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Ara Oshagan
Brahim El Guabli I am Amazigh, Black, and Sahrawi. Amazigh language is my mother tongue. My mother...
15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Brahim El Guabli
Kurdish writer Ava Homa on how statelessness, trauma and political exile shaped her novel "Daughters of Smoke and...
15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Ava Homa