Like a classic noir narrative in which morality blurs and truth is slippery, the world today feels increasingly...
5 DECEMBER 2025 • By Jordan Elgrably
In this exclusive short story, a Palestinian aspiring poet in New York City tries to solve an unsolvable...
5 DECEMBER 2025 • By Omar Khalifah
Ala Younis uses architecture, visual culture, and archives to excavate lesser-known connections and stories.
5 DECEMBER 2025 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
In this short story translated from Persian, an ordinary day swiftly — and brutally — changes course.
5 DECEMBER 2025 • By Abdollah Nazari
In this new book, Lisa Graves demonstrates the extent and danger of the changes to judicial power.
5 DECEMBER 2025 • By Stephen Rohde
These ten novels—all steeped in uncertainty, grit, shadowy streets, and moral ambiguity—encapsulate the best of Arab noir writing.
5 DECEMBER 2025 • By Rana Asfour
Jafar Panahi’s film reminds us that vengeance doesn’t stop at borders.
5 DECEMBER 2025 • By Alex Demyanenko
This gritty thriller interweaves multiple perspectives to explore exile, identity, resistance, and the human cost of war.
5 DECEMBER 2025 • By Mirna Al-Mahdi
A novel that tells the story of the end of socialism in Algeria, almost one year before the...
5 DECEMBER 2025 • By Saïd Khaitibi
Playwright Melis Aker makes a compelling argument in favor of shadows.
5 DECEMBER 2025 • By Melis Aker
This tautly written short story charts the existential dread of Israeli checkpoints.
5 DECEMBER 2025 • By Majd Aburrub
Does prison lead to writing? “Even if you’re not a writer at first, you start to write in...
5 DECEMBER 2025 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould
