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The anger and sadness I brought back from Damascus. And the urge to shave my head

The anger and sadness I brought back from Damascus. And the urge to shave my head

Batoul Ahmad, during a ten-year absence from Damascus, reconstructs her sense of home through memory and self-discovery in...

MAY 2, 2025 • By Batoul Ahmad
On Forgiveness and Path—an Exhibition in Damascus

On Forgiveness and Path—an Exhibition in Damascus

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
Courage and Compassion, a Memoir of War and its Aftermath

Courage and Compassion, a Memoir of War and its Aftermath

Nektaria Anastasiadou reviews polyglot Tony Molho's memoir about the Holocaust in Greece and his family history.

OCTOBER 18, 2024 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
Why FORGETTING?

Why FORGETTING?

What shall we forget and what shall we remember, and can forgetting also be a force for good?...

MAY 3, 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Memory Archive: Between Remembering and Forgetting

Memory Archive: Between Remembering and Forgetting

Mai Al-Nakib explores memory, forgetting, and writing through the lenses of Woolf, Proust, and a Wim Wenders film.

MAY 3, 2024 • By Mai Al-Nakib
Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies

Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies

Brittany Landorf reviews the first major film of director Asmae El Moudir, Morocco’s entry for the 2024 Academy...

MAY 3, 2024 • By Brittany Landorf
The Elephant in the Box

The Elephant in the Box

Revisiting her memories of Egypt's January 25 revolution, Asmaa Elgamal finds that denying common sense is the worst...

MAY 3, 2024 • By Asmaa Elgamal
Forgotten & Silenced Histories in Moroccan Other-Archives

Forgotten & Silenced Histories in Moroccan Other-Archives

Language, gender, class, race, and geography shape citizenship in Morocco today, argues Brahim El Guabli in his latest...

MAY 3, 2024 • By Natalie Bernstien
The Art of Letting Go: On the Path to Willful Abandonment

The Art of Letting Go: On the Path to Willful Abandonment

Nashwa Nasreldine explores the importance of holding onto failed attempts to capture fleeting moments for the sake of...

MAY 3, 2024 • By Nashwa Nasreldin
An Iranian Novelist Seeks the Truth About a Plane Crash

An Iranian Novelist Seeks the Truth About a Plane Crash

Novelist Négar Djavadi deploys non-fiction to question Iran's downing of an international flight out of Tehran.

JANUARY 15, 2024 • By Sepideh Farkhondeh
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