After going to Cashmere in Washington state last summer, Nafeesa Syeed wrote the following essay on colonization, displacement,...
2 MAY 2025 • By Nafeesa Syeed
Envisioning innovative new futures that challenge conventional thinking and inspire transformative possibilities.
2 MAY 2025 • By Myriam Cohenca
Salar Abdoh reflects on returning to Iran, burdened by injustice and a desire to reconnect with a culture...
2 MAY 2025 • By Salar Abdoh
Writer Mai Al-Nakib explores the fictions of homecoming and the potentialities of exile.
2 MAY 2025 • By Mai Al-Nakib
Poet Lara Kassem explores her conflicted feelings about home, identity, and longing.
2 MAY 2025 • By Lara Kassem
Arabic jazz challenges stereotypes amid rising xenophobia in the West and colonial violence in the Arab world.
2 MAY 2025 • By Gabriel Polley
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
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
Young Palestinian citizens of Israel navigate life facing a unique position as both insiders and outsiders.
2 MAY 2025 • By Sophia Didinova
Sama Alshaibi’s new project focuses on the spatial, material, and technological fragments that narrate the story of a...
2 MAY 2025 • By Yasmine Al Awa
Laila Abdalla, a young Egyptian journalist transplanted to Germany, sizes up the rightward drift of the country.
25 APRIL 2025 • By Laila Abdalla
The Egyptian author of an epistolary novel — his first in English — meditates on whether his work...
4 APRIL 2025 • By Youssef Rakha
