May 15, 2025 is the 77th commemoration of the Nakba, the day in 1948 that Palestinians suffered their...
MAY 15, 2025 • By TMR
This anthology, while celebrating last year's best literary translations, aims to highlight writing from and about a world...
MAY 9, 2025 • By Lara Vergnaud
Poet and essayist Mosab Abu Toha who grew up in Gaza under the bombs has won the 2025...
MAY 9, 2025 • By Jordan Elgrably
Djinns emerge in a fractured home in Istanbul, reflecting the intercultural and intergenerational tensions in Fatma Aydemir’s family...
MAY 9, 2025 • By Elena Pare
Anna Badkhen argues that the moral bankruptcy of American intellectuals…will only kick us down the hole deeper, faster.
MAY 2, 2025 • By Anna Badkhen
Laila Abdalla, a young Egyptian journalist transplanted to Germany, sizes up the rightward drift of the country.
APRIL 25, 2025 • By Laila Abdalla
Hassan Blasim’s work is not imitation. His is a voice forged in exile, and steeped in the paradoxes...
APRIL 25, 2025 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
Film and writers’ festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures, new books, art residencies, and writing workshops.
APRIL 25, 2025 • By TMR
In post-regime Syria, forgiveness is not resolution—it’s a quiet demand for justice in the language of art.
APRIL 18, 2025 • By Robert Bociaga
A story of a self-estranged gay adolescent navigating his identity as an Armenian in Iran and later as...
APRIL 18, 2025 • By Sean Casey
