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Liberation Cosplay: on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer

Liberation Cosplay: on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer

Events like the Day of the Imprisoned Writer risk becoming mere spectacles until they challenge the status quo.

15 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Abdelrahman ElGendy
A Jewish Meditation on the Palestinian Genocide

A Jewish Meditation on the Palestinian Genocide

A Jewish American has been afraid to express her reservations and criticism of Israel's actions in Gaza, but...

15 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Sheryl Ono
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 spotlights artists who reveal how animals in art serve as symbols, actors, or something altogether new.

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
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
Mohammad Hafez Ragab: Upsetting the Guards of Cairo

Mohammad Hafez Ragab: Upsetting the Guards of Cairo

Maha Al Aswad sheds light on Egyptian writer Mohammad Hafez Ragab, a literary figure of the 1960s whose...

6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Maha Al Aswad
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