Leaving Abdoh, Finding Chamran
Salar Abdoh reflects on returning to Iran, burdened by injustice and a desire to reconnect with a culture that has normalized disinformation.
Exile and Hope: Sudanese creatives and the question of home
Sudanese artists in exile are keeping their identity and heritage alive while they await the chance to return home.
Home is Elsewhere: On the Fictions of Return
Writer Mai Al-Nakib explores the fictions of homecoming and the potentialities of exile.
Arabic Jazz and Yazz Ahmed: A Music Between Homelands
Arabic jazz challenges stereotypes amid rising xenophobia in the West and colonial violence in the Arab world.
A Letter To My Cruel Lover: Tripoli
Poet Lara Kassem explores her conflicted feelings about home, identity, and longing.
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 Australia.
Looking for a Job, Living and Dying in Iran: The Logistics of Going Back
Not even escalating tensions between Israel and Iran could stop one wayward Iranian from returning home to see his father one last time.
“Return to Salé,” an excerpt from Le Bastion des Larmes
Returning to Salé, his hometown in Morocco, a writer and educator is haunted by the voice of a gay lover, who insists on being remembered.
Strangers at Home: Young Palestinians in Israel
Young Palestinian citizens of Israel navigate life facing a unique position as both insiders and outsiders.
“Return to Ramallah,” an excerpt from Too Soon by Betty Shamieh
Shamieh’s novel invites the audience to reflect on notions of home and the multifaceted nature of belonging.
Return to Iraq: Sama Alshaibi’s ‘طرس’
Sama Alshaibi’s new project focuses on the spatial, material, and technological fragments that narrate the story of a place and its people.
The Pen and the Sword — Censorship Threatens Us All
Anna Badkhen argues that the moral bankruptcy of American intellectuals…will only kick us down the hole deeper, faster.