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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
“Ten-Armed Gods”—a short story by Odai Al Zoubi
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