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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
تقويم الشتات

تقويم الشتات

من بيت والديها في دمشق، تصف ديمة البيطار قلعجي ما استرجعته من ذكريات طفولتها، وتحدثنا عن أدب المنفى...

5 MAY 2025 • By ديمة البيطار قلعجي
طريق البيت

طريق البيت

جزء من نص طويل يعمل عليه الكاتب دلير يوسف عن عودته إلى دمشق في بدايات العام ٢٠٢٥، بعد...

5 MAY 2025 • By دلير يوسف
A Kashmiri in Cashmere

A Kashmiri in Cashmere

After going to Cashmere in Washington state last summer, Nafeesa Syeed wrote the following essay on colonization, displacement,...

2 MAY 2025 • By Nafeesa Syeed
Neither Here Nor There

Neither Here Nor There

Envisioning innovative new futures that challenge conventional thinking and inspire transformative possibilities.

2 MAY 2025 • By Myriam Cohenca
Leaving Abdoh, Finding Chamran

Leaving Abdoh, Finding Chamran

Salar Abdoh reflects on returning to Iran, burdened by injustice and a desire to reconnect with a culture...

2 MAY 2025 • By Salar Abdoh
Home is Elsewhere: On the Fictions of Return

Home is Elsewhere: On the Fictions of Return

Writer Mai Al-Nakib explores the fictions of homecoming and the potentialities of exile.

2 MAY 2025 • By Mai Al-Nakib
A Letter To My Cruel Lover: Tripoli

A Letter To My Cruel Lover: Tripoli

Poet Lara Kassem explores her conflicted feelings about home, identity, and longing.

2 MAY 2025 • By Lara Kassem
Arabic Jazz and Yazz Ahmed: A Music Between Homelands

Arabic Jazz and Yazz Ahmed: A Music Between Homelands

Arabic jazz challenges stereotypes amid rising xenophobia in the West and colonial violence in the Arab world.

2 MAY 2025 • By Gabriel Polley
Looking for a Job, Living and Dying in Iran: The Logistics of Going Back

Looking for a Job, Living and Dying in Iran: The Logistics of Going Back

Not even escalating tensions between Israel and Iran could stop one wayward Iranian from returning home to see...

2 MAY 2025 • By Raha Nik-Andish
The anger and sadness I brought back from Damascus. And the urge to shave my head

The anger and sadness I brought back from Damascus. And the urge to shave my head

Batoul Ahmad, during a ten-year absence from Damascus, reconstructs her sense of home through memory and self-discovery in...

2 MAY 2025 • By Batoul Ahmad
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