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مقال لمنار السيف: قراءة ما بين سطور الأرض

مقال لمنار السيف: قراءة ما بين سطور الأرض

تكتب منار السيف عن علاقتها وإعجابها بتضاريس الأرض، ما دفعها إلى دراسة الجيولوجيا التي شغلت حياتها العملية والخاصة...

30 JUNE 2025 • By منار السيف
Missiles and Rhetoric — a Tehrani Reflects on the “12-Day War”

Missiles and Rhetoric — a Tehrani Reflects on the “12-Day War”

A writer in Tehran surveys the wreckage after 12 days of missiles, bombs and rhetoric flying between Israel...

27 JUNE 2025 • By Amir
نظرة إلى متعددة ولادات عظمى

نظرة إلى متعددة ولادات عظمى

تنظر سارة شاهين إلى مريضاتها نظرتين مترابطتين؛ واحدة كطبيبة تنظر إلى مريض، والأخرى كإنسانة تنظر إلى إنسان يخوض...

23 JUNE 2025 • By سارة شاهين
Life Under the Shadow of Missiles: the View From Iran

Life Under the Shadow of Missiles: the View From Iran

A writer-artist sits in a café in Tehran with a failing internet connection, risking life and limb to...

20 JUNE 2025 • By Amir
Israel is Today’s Sparta: Middle East Wars Viewed from Iraq

Israel is Today’s Sparta: Middle East Wars Viewed from Iraq

Somewhere in Tehran, a child feels the same incomprehensible terror as foreign missiles fall, just as the writer...

20 JUNE 2025 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
Cairo: A Downtown in Search of Lost Global City Status

Cairo: A Downtown in Search of Lost Global City Status

A photo festival backed by a real estate developer puts the spotlight on Cairo's Downtown under transformation.

13 JUNE 2025 • By Iason Athanasiadis
مقال لسارة شاهين: لا مكان إلا القاهرة، لا حيلة مع القاهرة

مقال لسارة شاهين: لا مكان إلا القاهرة، لا حيلة مع القاهرة

عن القاهرة القديمة وشوارعها، تكتب سارة شاهين بلغة رصينة وممتعة في الوقت نفسه، من داخل أوتوبيس نقل عام،...

9 JUNE 2025 • By سارة شاهين
Mama’s Kitchen

Mama’s Kitchen

A writer looks back on formative memories of her mother and grandmother in the kitchen and wonders about...

6 JUNE 2025 • By Lina Mounzer
Victorious Decolonization in the Work of Joyce Joumaa

Victorious Decolonization in the Work of Joyce Joumaa

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
“Inside the Margins”: Centering Tirailleurs in Bandes Dessinées

“Inside the Margins”: Centering Tirailleurs in Bandes Dessinées

The graphic novels or bandes dessinées out of Africa are a line in the sand of protest and...

6 JUNE 2025 • By Aomar Boum
Interview: Joe Sacco on Gaza

Interview: Joe Sacco on Gaza

Joe Sacco uses his graphic storytelling in "War on Gaza" to reflect on the events in the Gaza...

6 JUNE 2025 • By Elias Feroz
About to Erupt: A Snapshot of Contemporary Art in Istanbul

About to Erupt: A Snapshot of Contemporary Art in Istanbul

Naima Morelli explores Istanbul’s art scene, discovering its underground energy at a gallery, art fair, and museum retrospective.

6 JUNE 2025 • By Naima Morelli
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