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Arabic Was the Guest at This Year’s Avignon Festival

Arabic Was the Guest at This Year’s Avignon Festival

Arabic, France’s second-most spoken language, was featured at this year’s Avignon Festival, but is Arabic still the outsider's...

AUGUST 15, 2025 • By Georgina Van Welie
Arab Writing in French: Claiming Space and Language

Arab Writing in French: Claiming Space and Language

The “francophone” term limits books to the “Francophonie” section in French bookstores, and forces authors to focus on...

JULY 4, 2025 • By Lara Vergnaud
Mounir Fatmi—Where Art Meets Technology

Mounir Fatmi—Where Art Meets Technology

Sophie Kazan Makhlouf interviews international Moroccan artist Mounir Fatmi on his studio practice, why he makes art, and...

DECEMBER 28, 2024 • By Sophie Kazan Makhlouf
The Walls Have Eyes—Surveillance in the Algorithm Age

The Walls Have Eyes—Surveillance in the Algorithm Age

Iason Athanasiadis talks to Petra Molnar about her new book on automated decision-making technologies that facilitate institutional violence...

OCTOBER 18, 2024 • By Iason Athanasiadis
Censorship and Cancellation Fail to Camouflage the Ugly Truth

Censorship and Cancellation Fail to Camouflage the Ugly Truth

Israel’s war on Gaza and Palestinians in the West Bank has prompted dissent around the world that refuses...

OCTOBER 4, 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud —A Review

This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud —A Review

An entire family is preoccupied with its history and questions of national identity, confounded by France’s rejection of...

MAY 31, 2024 • By Katherine A. Powers
Undoing Colonial Geographies from Paris with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Undoing Colonial Geographies from Paris with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

With genocidal violence raging in Gaza and muzzling of pro-Palestinian voices throughout France, Ariella Azoulay's word is now...

APRIL 1, 2024 • By Sasha Moujaes
Israel-Palestine: Peace Under Occupation?

Israel-Palestine: Peace Under Occupation?

Laëtitia Soula reports on a French trade union event that presented anti-colonialist writer and publisher Alain Gresh.

JANUARY 29, 2024 • By Laëtitia Soula
War and Art: A Lebanese Photographer and His Protégés

War and Art: A Lebanese Photographer and His Protégés

War and documentary photographer Maher Attar opens the Art District in Beirut to nurture other artists and beauty.

NOVEMBER 13, 2023 • By Nicole Hamouche
And Yet Our Brothers: Portraits of France

And Yet Our Brothers: Portraits of France

Laëtitia Soula toured the expansive photo exhibit Portraits of France, which celebrates the lives of 318 immigrants who...

MAY 22, 2023 • By Laëtitia Soula
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