These on-the-ground notes from Iran reject oversimplification and one-sided narratives: "There is layer upon layer."
23 JANUARY 2026 • By M. Nateqnuri
Neshat’s work reminds us that Iran has always contained multitudes: radical artists, secular thinkers, feminists, modernists.
16 JANUARY 2026 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
Anna Badkhen argues that the moral bankruptcy of American intellectuals…will only kick us down the hole deeper, faster.
2 MAY 2025 • By Anna Badkhen
Gaza was meant from the start of the genocide to be bombed into rubble, to be made uninhabitable...
14 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Chris Hedges
Susan Abulhawa gave a speech at Oxford Union as a resolution passed determining "Israel is an apartheid state...
6 DECEMBER 2024 • By Susan Abulhawa
A year after committing ethnic cleansing, Azerbaijan prepares to host COP29 with little pushback from mainstream media.
25 OCTOBER 2024 • By Lucine Kasbarian
A Beiruti interrogates her country's perennial condition with its neighbor in the aftermath of October 7 and the...
4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Amal Ghandour
When religious fanatics in Lebanon aren’t fighting one another, they make the best war comrades against modernity, secularism,...
6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Joumana Haddad
With the war in Gaza and accusations of genocide in the International Court of Justice, tensions have risen...
12 APRIL 2024 • By Maura Finkelstein
An Arab playwright in London reacts to the canceling of Palestinian voices six months into a horrific war.
12 APRIL 2024 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
Ahmed Twaij, a physician and journalist with experience in Iraq and other war zones, argues Hamas and ISIS...
27 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Ahmed Twaij
For Gaza, the terms “humanitarian pause” and “ceasefire” may not be enough and might even be used as...
20 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Adrian Kreutz
