Essays

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
A Kashmiri in Cashmere

A Kashmiri in Cashmere

A trip to Cashmere in Washington state prompts reflections on colonization, displacement, and belonging.

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
 
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