Malu Halasa performs Mai Ghoussoub's groundbreaking essay, "Chewing Viagra Gum."
15 MARCH 2022 • By Rana Asfour
A father's love for one of his sons is almost ineffable, in Hanif Kureishi's journal intime and travel...
15 MARCH 2022 • By Hanif Kureishi
A take on desire from a masterful cook and Bethlehem chef, Fadi Kattan.
15 MARCH 2022 • By Ella Shohat
A young Arab American concierge working at the iconic Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills recalls what it was...
15 MARCH 2022 • By Gilbert Achcar
Lebanese poet-novelist Abbas Baydoun reflects in an autobiographical mode on the melancholy of language and existence, while contemplating...
15 MARCH 2022 • By Abbas Baydoun
Three poems of love and desire, composed in Beirut during the darkest days of the civil war, and war...
15 MARCH 2022 • By Noreen Moustafa
Artist Reem Mouasher shares her recent series of paintings, inspired by the era of hand-written love letters, borrowing...
15 MARCH 2022 • By Atia Shafee
Syrian artist and writer Khalil Younes recalls the strained sexuality of Martyrs Square in Damascus.
15 MARCH 2022 • By Khalil Younes
A frank look at the changing social attitudes toward sexuality in war-torn Syria.
15 MARCH 2022 • By Rana Asfour
Iranian American poet and translator Haleh Liza Gafori presents a new volume of Rumi translations in "GOLD" published...
15 MARCH 2022 • By Haleh Liza Gafori
From Leonard Cohen to Apollo and Daphne to French philosopher Jean-Lun Nancy, Arie Akkermans-Amaya looks at the influences...
15 MARCH 2022 • By Selma Dabbagh
Sherine Elbanhawy lives in the pages of a memoir in verse and finds herself reluctant to leave, identifying...
15 MARCH 2022 • By Sherine Elbanhawy