Editor Jordan Elgrably introduces the BERLIN issue guest editor, Viola Shafik, and more than a dozen new contributors...
15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Jordan Elgrably
Ahmed Farouk, the Arabic translator of Günter Grass, W. G. Sebald and Rosa Luxemburg, among others, struggles with...
15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Ahmed Farouk
Egyptian writer Ahmed Awny divigates between fiction and reality in this decentering short story.
15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Barrak Alzaid
An Egyptian refugee in Berlin, longing for a home of his own, hopes love is around the corner.
15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Shahd Alshammari
Melissa Chemam profiles contemporary Algerian-French artist Kader Attia as he discusses his role with the Berlin Biennale.
15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Melissa Chemam
Viola Shafik profiles Jihan El-Tahiri and Myriam El Haïk, two Arab artists in the 2022 Berlin Biennale.
15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Karim Kattan
Film historian Viola Shafik interviews Syrian filmmaker Ziad Kalthoum about his peripatetic life in Syria and beyond.
15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Karim Kattan
Filmmaker and historian Viola Shafik muses on German art, colonialism and restitution in Berlin.
15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Viola Shafik
Maisan Hamdan, a single Palestinian woman, attempts to survive in Berlin without a cell phone.
15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Bakytiyar Ali
Author and literature professor Randa Aboubakr, who travels back and forth from Cairo to Berlin, explores the city's...
15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Randa Aboubakr
A serial entrepreneur, engineer and nomad settles in Berlin, only to start up an Egyptian food truck.
15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Mohamed Radwan
Necati Sönmez, a Berlin film critic and curator, reviews the new music documentary from German-Turkish director Cem Kaya.
15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi