12 SEPTEMBRE 2024 Communiqué de presse

Why GATEKEEPERS?

Featured Artists: “Barred From Home”

Mohammad Hafez Ragab: Upsetting the Guards of Cairo

Meta’s Community Standards as a Tool of Digital/Settler-Colonialism

Forget Social Media—Government is the Real Threat to Freedom

Who Decides What Makes for Authentic Middle East Fiction?

Egypt’s Gatekeeper, President or Despot?

My Life Among the Gatekeepers

Lebanon’s Holy Gatekeepers of Free Speech

“Made to Measure”—fiction from Farah Ahamed

“Dear Sniper” —a short story by Ali Ramthan Hussein

Soudade Kaadan: Filmmaker Interview

“Fragments from a Gaza Nightmare”—fiction from Sama Hassan

Festival Arabesques Fetes Arab Arts for Cultural Diversity

September World Picks from the Editors

Beyond Rubble—Cultural Heritage and Healing After Disaster

Birth in a Poem: Maram Al-Masri’s The Abduction

Two Poems from Saba Keramati

Two Poems by Alexandra Lytton Regalado

Meditations on Palestinian Exile and Return

“Kill the Music”—an excerpt from a new novel by Badar Salem

Sahar Rabah—Two Poems From Gaza

SPECIAL KURDISH ISSUE: From Kurmanji to English, an Introduction to Selim Temo

Woe to the Conquered: Selim Temo’s Nightlands

“Common Types of Melancholy”—fiction from Shalaw Habiba

Wandering and Endless Sorrow: Farhad Pirbal’s The Potato Eaters

All That Rage: On Comma Press’ Egypt +100

Nabil Kanso: Lebanon and the Split of Life—a Review

World Picks from the Editors: AUGUST

On The Anthropologists—an interview with Aysegül Savas

Excerpt from The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş

Israel’s Black Panthers by Asaf Elia-Shalev—a Review

Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew by Avi Shlaim—a Review

Poet Hedy Habra

Hafez, Iran’s Revered Poet, trans. Erfan Mojib & Gary Gach

Kadria Hussein: Egypt’s Forgotten Painter Princess

Morocco’s Bīylmawn Festival and the Threat of Cultural Attrition

World Picks from the Editors: July 15 — August 2

“Firefly”—a short story by Alireza Iranmehr

“The Mulberry Tree”—an excerpt from Altercation in Jahannam

Victoria—An Excerpt

Dune in 2024: A World Beyond Saving

The Top 12 Books to Read This Summer

“An Inherited Offense”—a Levantine story on the island of Leros

Why Summer Fiction? For the Wonders & Miracles

Deena Mohamed

Flaubert’s Poison Pen

“The Social Media Kids”—a short story by Qais Akbar Omar

The Mourning Diaries of Atash Shakarami