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Neither Here Nor There

Neither Here Nor There

Envisioning innovative new futures that challenge conventional thinking and inspire transformative possibilities.

MAY 2, 2025 • By Myriam Cohenca
Strangers at Home: Young Palestinians in Israel

Strangers at Home: Young Palestinians in Israel

Young Palestinian citizens of Israel navigate life facing a unique position as both insiders and outsiders.

MAY 2, 2025 • By Sophia Didinova
Four Gates to the Hereafter: On The Dissenters

Four Gates to the Hereafter: On The Dissenters

The Egyptian author of an epistolary novel — his first in English — meditates on whether his work...

APRIL 4, 2025 • By Youssef Rakha
Gregory Pardlo presents Two Poems

Gregory Pardlo presents Two Poems

Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gregory Pardlo presents two poems from his collection "Spectral Evidence."

NOVEMBER 24, 2024 • By Gregory Pardlo
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
What We Write About When We (Arabs) Write About Love

What We Write About When We (Arabs) Write About Love

Eman Quotah reviews a new anthology of love poems by Arab poets writing in English in the diaspora...

OCTOBER 23, 2023 • By Eman Quotah
The Ongoing Nakba—Rasha Al-Jundi’s Embroidery Series

The Ongoing Nakba—Rasha Al-Jundi’s Embroidery Series

Exile retold through embroidered Palestinian stories, by documentary photographer and visual storyteller Rasha Al Jundi.

OCTOBER 16, 2023 • By Rasha Al Jundi
Edward Said: Writing in the Service of Life 

Edward Said: Writing in the Service of Life 

Academic and novelist Layla AlAmmar interrogates her life's creative and scholarly achievements against the teachings of Edward Said.

OCTOBER 9, 2023 • By Layla AlAmmar
“Kaleidoscope: In Pursuit of the Real in a Virtual World”—fiction from Dina Abou Salem

“Kaleidoscope: In Pursuit of the Real in a Virtual World”—fiction from Dina Abou Salem

Caught between Beirut and a town in the Californian desert, Buthayna searches for the meaning amid life’s absurdities.

OCTOBER 1, 2023 • By Dina Abou Salem
The Failure of Postcolonial Modernity in Siddhartha Deb’s Light

The Failure of Postcolonial Modernity in Siddhartha Deb’s Light

Anis Shivani finds that Siddhartha Deb's "outright denial of human agency sets him apart from even the most...

JULY 17, 2023 • By Anis Shivani
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