Rana Haddad interviews hybrid hopscotching writer Michael Vatikiotis on his colorful life and work spanning continents.
18 OCTOBER 2024 • By Rana Haddad
Celebrating the 19th Rencontre des Arts du Monde Arabe, Festival Arabesques will be held from September 10 to...
30 AUGUST 2024 • By Laëtitia Soula
While studying abroad in Alexandria, Bel Parker becomes a butcher's apprentice to immerse herself in the local language...
5 JULY 2024 • By Bel Parker
As this writer from Khuzestan remembers, the long Iran-Iraq war left many traces, names and ghosts in its...
3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Maryam Haidari
A children’s book publisher in the Middle East makes the case for teaching children to read in their...
3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Nada Sabet
Translator Kareem Abu-Zeid talks about the recent New Directions volume of the translated poems of Syrian maestro Adonis.
9 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Kareem James Abu-Zeid
What happens when public universities begin shutting down entire area studies departments, and learning foreign languages becomes a...
28 AUGUST 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
Jordan Elgrably interviews the Algerian-French iconoclast about her first album after Covid and about why she's devoted her...
1 MAY 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
Rana Asfour interviews fellow Jordanian writer Hisham Bustani about his stories, writing in Arabic and ideas on history...
5 MARCH 2023 • By Rana Asfour
Expressions of love in Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Turkish and Kurdish, to give Valentine's Day a new meaning.
13 FEBRUARY 2023 • By TMR
Music writer Melissa Chemam interviews Rasha Nahas on her new Arabic-language album, "Amrat."
23 JANUARY 2023 • By Melissa Chemam
Jenine Abboushi in her latest travel essay, returns to Morocco for a long-overdue visit.
9 JANUARY 2023 • By Jenine Abboushi
