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
A writer's satirical guide on how to write about the hapless, subjugated Kurds, if you're not already filming...
JUNE 14, 2024 • By Matthew Broomfield
Sevinç Unal relives her memories as she surveys the region of her family and childhood in southeastern Anatolia...
NOVEMBER 5, 2023 • By Sevinç Ünal
Expressions of love in Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Turkish and Kurdish, to give Valentine's Day a new meaning.
FEBRUARY 13, 2023 • By TMR
Ahmet Altan, one of Turkey's best-known novelists was locked up in prison, the key thrown away.
OCTOBER 27, 2022 • By
Melissa Chemam is swept away by an Iraqi American artist's latest exhibit at Mosaic Rooms in London.
MARCH 28, 2022 • By Melissa Chemam
Iason Athanasiadis paints the portrait of Bahoz, a stateless Kurd who will keep fighting to become accepted for...
JANUARY 15, 2022 • By Francisco Letelier
Landscape is a charged notion in the Middle East—even the geographical term Middle East is not neutral, but...
DECEMBER 14, 2020 • By Anne-Marie O'Connor