World Picks from the Editors: Dec 9 — Dec 22

The Palestine Laboratory and Gaza: An Excerpt

Why Endings & Beginnings?

“The Summer They Heard Music”—a short story by MK Harb

“Of Wood and Hallucination”—fiction from Mansoura Ez-Eldin

“Twelve Angels”—fiction from Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi

“Kabul’s Haikus”—fiction from Maryam Mahjoba

The Paranda Network—Afghan Women Writing

“The Waiting Bones”—an essay by Maryam Haidari

Almost Every Day—from the novel by Mohammed Abdelnabi

Huda Fakhreddine’s A Brief Time Under a Different Sun

In the Beginning and the End is the Book

“I, Hanan”—a Gazan tale of survival by Joumana Haddad

Why We Stay in Beirut, Despite Its Countless Crises

Days of Oranges—Libya’s Thawra

Hanan Eshaq

“Junk”—a short story by May Haddad

Unshackling Language in Arabic Children’s Literature

A Jaha in the Metaverse—fiction by Fadi Zaghmout

Demolition and Recreation in Benghazi: Interview with Sarri Elfaitouri

“The Followers”—a short story by Youssef Manessa

The Day My Life Ended, It Began

On the Herculean Task of Translating Joyce’s Ulysses into Kurdish

“My Father’s Last Meal”—a Kurdish Tale

First Kurdish Sci-Fi Collection is Rooted in the Past

Gaza vs. Mosul from a Medical and Humanitarian Standpoint

Palestinian Artists & Anti-War Supporters of Gaza Cancelled

World Picks from the Editors: Nov 24 – Dec 10

Bahar: 22 years in the Life of a Compulsory Hijabi in Teheran

Iranian Women Photographers: Life, Freedom, Music, Art & Hair

Clashing Cultures and Gender Politics in The Persian Version

What’s in a Ceasefire?

Avi Shlaim Interviewed by Layla Maghribi

The Fiction of Palestine’s Ghassan Zaqtan

War and Art: A Lebanese Photographer and His Protégés

My Love for Derna: Interview with Libyan Writer Mahbuba Khalifa

Beautiful October 7th Art Belies the Horrors of War

World Picks from the Editors: Nov 07 – Nov 24

Poet Ahmad Almallah

ADONIS in Translation—Kareem Abu-Zeid with Ivan Eubanks

Remembering Khaled Khalifa on the 40th Day

Palestine’s Pen against Israel’s Swords of Injustice

Editors’ Palestinian Lit List

Domicide—War on the City

Atom Bombs and Earthquakes: Changing Arabian Culture Via Architecture

Stitching Baluchestan: Embroidery as Topography

Interview: Oorvi Sharma, Architectural Researcher and Designer

Experimental Saharanism: Exploiting Desert Environments

Mounia Kansoussi: Time, Movement, Space

The Bridge to Nowhere