Dictionary of a Clown Between Two Languages
A writer ponders the blunders and buffoonery of life while navigating a thorny love triangle and binging chips.
The COMEDY Book List
A book list that proves that sometimes the best way to make sense of the world is to laugh at its madness.
Mazen Kerbaj’s Record of Time
A Lebanese artist approaches an absurd ever-collapsing world with a pen, paint, and trumpet.
“An Anecdote of Errors”—flash fiction
A darkly humorous work of fiction in which the author explores the patriarchy’s pervasive influence on relationships, even outside marriage.
Make ‘em Laugh: Arab Stand-Ups in France
French stand-up has aways been based in social commentary, driven in large part by comics of Arab and African origin.
Bibi Netanyahu Arrives in Hell Today! (A Memo to All Departments)
How can a poem about a genocidal ruler be funny and rhyme? One writer accepts the challenge…
Taking Comedy Seriously
Even in this most grief-stricken of timelines, humor offers us a way to laugh through (and at) our pain.
“If I Wasn’t There, Someone Else Would Do It”
In the controversial documentary film NAZA, filmmakers grant the soldiers an anonymity that they have rejected on the battlefield.
One Patient at a Time: A Review of American Doctor
This unflinching film refuses to look away from the horrors of Gaza, mirroring the urgency of the ongoing catastrophe it seeks to document.
Unstable Ground: Istanbul’s Changing Cultural Landscape
Amid a tense cultural and political climate, a palpable wariness hovered over Istanbul’s art programme this autumn.
Tunisia’s Fading Medina Heritage: A Glimpse of our Future?
Tunis’ ancient citadel is threatened by climate change and incompetence but could also offer solutions to hotter, wetter conditions.
A Sunday Walk to the Drums of War
Israel’s strategy in Lebanon’s south is less a new military design than an “old and improved” version of its national security concept.