Writer Mai Al-Nakib explores the fictions of homecoming and the potentialities of exile.
2 MAY 2025 • By Mai Al-Nakib
Arabic jazz challenges stereotypes amid rising xenophobia in the West and colonial violence in the Arab world.
2 MAY 2025 • By Gabriel Polley
My Tripoli breathes gunpowder, // … the city where mosques are bombed and streets get emptied. // …...
2 MAY 2025 • By Lara Kassem
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
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
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
An NYU professor who has frequently taught this Iraqi novel finds that two months into Trump 2.0, its...
21 MARCH 2025 • By Deborah Williams
From blindfolding potential dates to threating them with cockroaches, Iranian YouTube dating game shows go viral and the...
7 MARCH 2025 • By Malu Halasa
The Trees spoke above the screams, the fires, the bombs, the droughts, across the oasis, forests, and streams...
7 MARCH 2025 • By Alia Yunis
