In Iraq, buildings don’t simply reflect ideology — they absorb it, transmit it, and sometimes resist it. Especially...
4 JULY 2025 • By Meriam Othman
In Paranda, everyday activities like reading symbolize protest and resistance in homes, alleyways, and gatherings.
4 JULY 2025 • By Marie Bamyani
Victor Hugo’s way still guides those building bridges across languages, faiths, and histories in a time of fear.
4 JULY 2025 • By Yahia Lababidi
تكتب منار السيف عن علاقتها وإعجابها بتضاريس الأرض، ما دفعها إلى دراسة الجيولوجيا التي شغلت حياتها العملية والخاصة...
30 JUNE 2025 • By منار السيف
A writer in Tehran surveys the wreckage after 12 days of missiles, bombs and rhetoric flying between Israel...
27 JUNE 2025 • By Amir
تنظر سارة شاهين إلى مريضاتها نظرتين مترابطتين؛ واحدة كطبيبة تنظر إلى مريض، والأخرى كإنسانة تنظر إلى إنسان يخوض...
23 JUNE 2025 • By سارة شاهين
A writer-artist sits in a café in Tehran with a failing internet connection, risking life and limb to...
20 JUNE 2025 • By Amir
Somewhere in Tehran, a child feels the same incomprehensible terror as foreign missiles fall, just as the writer...
20 JUNE 2025 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
A photo festival backed by a real estate developer puts the spotlight on Cairo's Downtown under transformation.
13 JUNE 2025 • By Iason Athanasiadis
عن القاهرة القديمة وشوارعها، تكتب سارة شاهين بلغة رصينة وممتعة في الوقت نفسه، من داخل أوتوبيس نقل عام،...
9 JUNE 2025 • By سارة شاهين
A writer looks back on formative memories of her mother and grandmother in the kitchen and wonders about...
6 JUNE 2025 • By Lina Mounzer
Lebanese Canadian writer and visual artist Joyce Joumaa’s videos demonstrate that the colonized are not passive recipients of...
6 JUNE 2025 • By Aidan Simardone
