Free speech for the Middle East and North Africa — voices from across the center of the world...
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
Refugee camps, control, and dispossessed lives by artists Heba Tannous, Mahmoud Alhaj, Tayseer Barakat, Alaa Albaba, and photographer...
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Maha Al Aswad sheds light on Egyptian writer Mohammad Hafez Ragab, a literary figure of the 1960s whose...
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 • By Maha Al Aswad
Omar Zahzah argues that Meta censors free speech for Palestine because it is a US dominant corporate platform...
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 • By Omar Zahzah
The most dangerous gatekeepers aren’t social media platforms, but local, state and federal governments dictating what we can...
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 • By Stephen Rohde
Maged Mandour’s new book examines El-Sisi's exercise and abuse of power in post-revolutionary Egypt.
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 • By Elias Feroz
In Nektaria Anastasiadou's experience, agents, publishers and editors often have peculiar ideas about what constitutes Middle East fiction.
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
When religious fanatics in Lebanon aren’t fighting one another, they make the best war comrades against modernity, secularism,...
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 • By Joumana Haddad
Ammiel Alcalay writes of the gatekeepers who have affected every aspect of his writing, cultural, and public life.
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 • By Ammiel Alcalay
Sarah realizes that gatekeepers come in all shapes and forms — over the radio, at the end of...
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 • By Farah Ahamed
