displacement

Why Wouldn’t We Go Mad? Sudan’s War, Displacement, Illusions

Why Wouldn’t We Go Mad? Sudan’s War, Displacement, Illusions

A former volunteer in Khartoum questions if "madness" is an illness or a rational response in a trauma-ridden...

SEPTEMBER 5, 2025 • By Robert Bociaga
I Don’t Have Time For This Right Now

I Don’t Have Time For This Right Now

Fourteen million people have been displaced from Sudan due to the war, finding joy in life between the...

SEPTEMBER 5, 2025 • By Real Bakhit
A Kashmiri in Cashmere

A Kashmiri in Cashmere

After going to Cashmere in Washington state last summer, Nafeesa Syeed wrote the following essay on colonization, displacement,...

MAY 2, 2025 • By Nafeesa Syeed
Neither Here Nor There

Neither Here Nor There

Envisioning innovative new futures that challenge conventional thinking and inspire transformative possibilities.

MAY 2, 2025 • By Myriam Cohenca
Exile and Hope: Sudanese creatives and the question of home

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...

MAY 2, 2025 • By Ati Metwaly
A Letter To My Cruel Lover: Tripoli

A Letter To My Cruel Lover: Tripoli

My Tripoli breathes gunpowder, // … the city where mosques are bombed and streets get emptied. // …...

MAY 2, 2025 • By Lara Kassem
Hassan Blasim’s Sololand features Three Novellas on Iraq

Hassan Blasim’s Sololand features Three Novellas on Iraq

Hassan Blasim’s work is not imitation. His is a voice forged in exile, and steeped in the paradoxes...

APRIL 25, 2025 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
Meditations on Palestinian Exile and Return

Meditations on Palestinian Exile and Return

The essence of Palestinian resilience, survival, and resistance is rooted in dispossession, as noted by Dana El Saleh.

AUGUST 16, 2024 • By Dana El Saleh
Wandering and Endless Sorrow: Farhad Pirbal’s The Potato Eaters

Wandering and Endless Sorrow: Farhad Pirbal’s The Potato Eaters

Cory Oldweiler reviews the debut story collection by Farhad Pirbal, one of Kurdistan's iconic writers, now out from...

AUGUST 9, 2024 • By Cory Oldweiler
On The Anthropologists—an interview with Aysegül Savas

On The Anthropologists—an interview with Aysegül Savas

Amy Omar speaks to Ayşegül Savaş about her third novel, cinema and capturing the transitory phases of life.

JULY 26, 2024 • By Amy Omar
Excerpt from The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş

Excerpt from The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş

In her new novel, much like an anthropologist, Ayşegül Savaş explores how people live, love and set down...

JULY 26, 2024 • By Aysegul Savas
What Is Home?—Gazans Redefine Place Amid Displacement

What Is Home?—Gazans Redefine Place Amid Displacement

Continuously displaced Palestinians redefine "home" in Osama Kahlout’s surprising photographs from the war on Gaza.

MAY 31, 2024 • By Nadine Aranki
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