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“The Last Third of the Night”—a story by Dia Barghouti

“The Last Third of the Night”—a story by Dia Barghouti

A woman invited to a wedding wants to leave her house and return, but only if she can...

FEBRUARY 7, 2025 • By Dia Barghouti
Darius Atefat-Peckham: Three Poems

Darius Atefat-Peckham: Three Poems

Darius Atefat-Peckham’s debut poetry collection, "Book of Kin," follows a boy’s coming of age in the aftermath of...

DECEMBER 19, 2024 • By Darius Atefat-Peckham
“Deferred Sorrow”—fiction from Haidar Al Ghazali

“Deferred Sorrow”—fiction from Haidar Al Ghazali

In Haidar Al Ghazali's short story, a Palestinian father during the war on Gaza makes an impossible choice.

JULY 5, 2024 • By Haidar Al Ghazali
Messages From Gaza Now

Messages From Gaza Now

A Gazan theatre artist, constantly endangered by the onslaught of Israeli planes, drones and bombs, writes from the...

DECEMBER 11, 2023 • By Hossam Madhoun
In Praise of Khaled Khalifa—Friend, Artist, Humanist

In Praise of Khaled Khalifa—Friend, Artist, Humanist

Robin Yassin-Kassab pays tribute to late Syrian writer and humanist Khaled Khalifa, who died at the age of...

OCTOBER 16, 2023 • By Robin Yassin-Kassab
Death is a Traitor: Living the Morocco Earthquake from the US

Death is a Traitor: Living the Morocco Earthquake from the US

Moroccan Amazigh scholar Brahim El Guabli learned that his family in Ouarzazate lost their home in the earthquake...

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023 • By Brahim El Guabli
Two Poems, Practicing Absence & At the Airport—Sholeh Wolpé

Two Poems, Practicing Absence & At the Airport—Sholeh Wolpé

In her memoir in verse, a poet recounts a day in the life at the cemetery, and a...

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023 • By Sholeh Wolpé
Three Poems from Pantea Amin Tofangchi’s Glazed With War

Three Poems from Pantea Amin Tofangchi’s Glazed With War

Pantea Amin Tofangchi grew up in poetry, war, death, conflict, beauty, hatred, love, and censorship all at the...

AUGUST 3, 2023 • By Pantea Amin Tofangchi
The Light at the End of the Tunnel

The Light at the End of the Tunnel

A moving testimony to life, death, and the human condition by an Egyptian journalist who was blessed, and...

JULY 2, 2023 • By Mohamed Aboelgheit
Three Poems by Elena Karina Byrne

Three Poems by Elena Karina Byrne

The poet presents three poems from her fifth collection, If This Makes You Nervous.

MAY 2, 2023 • By Elena Karina Byrne
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