Naima Morelli spotlights artists who reveal how animals in art serve as symbols, actors, or something altogether new.
1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Naima Morelli
An Iranian writer and translator in the heart of Tehran unexpectedly becomes a cat woman, attached to her...
1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Farnaz Haeri
When Yahia Lababidi finds a bird egg in a flowerpot on his balcony, he ends up raising generations...
1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Yahia Lababidi
Historic Palestine has always been a fertile agricultural land, a space of spirituality, and where wine was born...
11 OCTOBER 2024 • By Fadi Kattan
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
A bleak and sobering account for those who may still have wanted to believe in the enlightening power...
4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Viola Shafik
Honoring the memory of US serviceman Aaron Bushnell, who died for truth and justice in protest of US...
4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Samina Najmi
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
Omar Zahzah argues that Meta censors free speech for Palestine because it is a US dominant corporate platform...
6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Omar Zahzah
The most dangerous gatekeepers aren’t social media platforms, but local, state and federal governments dictating what we can...
6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Stephen Rohde
In Nektaria Anastasiadou's experience, agents, publishers and editors often have peculiar ideas about what constitutes Middle East fiction.
6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
Ammiel Alcalay writes of the gatekeepers who have affected every aspect of his writing, cultural, and public life.
6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Ammiel Alcalay
