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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

Graphic novels out of Africa are a line in the sand of protest and rebellion against European colonialism.

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 through a gallery, an art fair, and a museum retrospective.

6 JUNE 2025 • By Naima Morelli
Imagining Ghanem—My Return to Lebanon

Imagining Ghanem—My Return to Lebanon

The writer explores Lebanon's archives for traces of her family who left 150 years ago, contemplating our responsibilities...

6 JUNE 2025 • By Amelia Izmanki
Doaa: From a Dreamworld to the Ashes of Displacement

Doaa: From a Dreamworld to the Ashes of Displacement

A Gaza writer's creative, hopeful sister struggles to get her degree and build a family in the midst...

30 MAY 2025 • By Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi
The End of Civilization as We Know It — a Catastrophology

The End of Civilization as We Know It — a Catastrophology

A review of how some of history’s greatest civilizations' collapse presents ominous parallels with our present predicament.

23 MAY 2025 • By Iason Athanasiadis
النزوح… ندبة في وجه البيت

النزوح… ندبة في وجه البيت

بعد شهور من الغياب عن بيتها، تعود الكاتبة والشاعرة ضحى كحلوت إليه، لتفاجأ بأنه لا يزال قائمًا بعد...

19 MAY 2025 • By ضحى كحلوت
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