A Moroccan artist becomes Italian and then Arab, all while creating art that critiques orientalist tropes, and having...
7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Naima Morelli
Fourteen million people have been displaced from Sudan due to the war, finding joy in life between the...
5 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Re'al Bakhit
A former volunteer in Khartoum questions if "madness" is an illness or a rational response in a trauma-ridden...
5 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Robert Bociaga
After going to Cashmere in Washington state last summer, Nafeesa Syeed wrote the following essay on colonization, displacement,...
2 MAY 2025 • By Nafeesa Syeed
Envisioning innovative new futures that challenge conventional thinking and inspire transformative possibilities.
2 MAY 2025 • By Myriam Cohenca
Sudanese artists in exile are keeping their identity and heritage alive while they await the chance to return...
2 MAY 2025 • By Ati Metwaly
My Tripoli breathes gunpowder, // … the city where mosques are bombed and streets get emptied. // …...
2 MAY 2025 • By Lara Kassem
Hassan Blasim’s work is not imitation. His is a voice forged in exile, and steeped in the paradoxes...
25 APRIL 2025 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
The essence of Palestinian resilience, survival, and resistance is rooted in dispossession, as noted by Dana El Saleh.
16 AUGUST 2024 • By Dana El Saleh
Cory Oldweiler reviews the debut story collection by Farhad Pirbal, one of Kurdistan's iconic writers, now out from...
9 AUGUST 2024 • By Cory Oldweiler
Amy Omar speaks to Ayşegül Savaş about her third novel, cinema and capturing the transitory phases of life.
26 JULY 2024 • By Amy Omar
In her new novel, much like an anthropologist, Ayşegül Savaş explores how people live, love and set down...
26 JULY 2024 • By Aysegul Savas
