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Between Two Sieges: Translating Roger Assaf in California

Between Two Sieges: Translating Roger Assaf in California

Letters from a displaced Lebanese poet today to civil war-era actor-director Roger Assaf evoke Beirut in 1982, 2006...

8 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Zeina Hashem Beck
يوم في حياة كارولين كامل في سوق السبت بالقاهرة

يوم في حياة كارولين كامل في سوق السبت بالقاهرة

.تكتب كارولين كامل عن فرحتها باستكشاف أسواق الأشياء المستعملة النابضة بالحياة في القاهرة، حيث ساعدها لقاؤها بباربي على...

4 NOVEMBER 2024 • By كارولين كامل
Beyond Our Gaze: Rethinking Animals in Contemporary Art

Beyond Our Gaze: Rethinking Animals in Contemporary Art

Naima Morelli introduces four artists who showcase the role of animals in art as symbols, actors, or something...

1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Naima Morelli
The Felines that Leave Us, and the Humans that Left

The Felines that Leave Us, and the Humans that Left

An Iranian writer and translator in the heart of Tehran unexpectedly becomes a cat woman, attached to her...

1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Farnaz Haeri
Pigeon Love

Pigeon Love

When Yahia Lababidi finds a bird egg in a flowerpot on his balcony, he ends up raising generations...

1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Yahia Lababidi
Palestine, the Land of Grapes and Wine

Palestine, the Land of Grapes and Wine

Historic Palestine has always been a fertile agricultural land, a space of spirituality, and where wine was born...

11 OCTOBER 2024 • By Fadi Kattan
A Year of War Without End

A Year of War Without End

In the guise of an editorial, senior editor Lina Mounzer struggles to find the words to describe the...

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Lina Mounzer
Visuals and Voices: Palestine Will Not Be a Palimpsest

Visuals and Voices: Palestine Will Not Be a Palimpsest

After a year of the war on Gaza, signs and symbols, art, and visuals from and about Palestine...

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Shamrocks & Watermelons: Palestine Politics in Belfast

Shamrocks & Watermelons: Palestine Politics in Belfast

Through a conflicted prism, the effect of the year-long war in Gaza on the music and politics of...

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Stuart Bailie
The Spark of Your Story, Ode to Aaron Bushnell

The Spark of Your Story, Ode to Aaron Bushnell

Honoring the memory of US serviceman Aaron Bushnell, who died for truth and justice in protest of US...

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Samina Najmi
Depictions of Genocide: The Un-Imaginable Visibility of Extermination

Depictions of Genocide: The Un-Imaginable Visibility of Extermination

A bleak and sobering account for those who may still have wanted to believe in the enlightening power...

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Viola Shafik
Featured Artists: “Barred From Home”

Featured Artists: “Barred From Home”

Refugee camps, control, and dispossessed lives by artists Heba Tannous, Mahmoud Alhaj, Tayseer Barakat, Alaa Albaba, and photographer...

6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Malu Halasa
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