In the wake of the genocide in Gaza, a Palestinian writer loses her words — until she finds...
6 MARCH 2026 • By Sarah Aziza
Our reviewer examines the Arab melancholy at the heart of Saleem Haddad’s second novel.
20 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Layla AlAmmar
For Avi Shlaim and Gilbert Achcar, the genocide in Gaza is a turning point, one from which there...
13 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould
In a world where justice and law reliably fail us, it might be literature that holds the better...
13 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
In "This Arab Life," Amal Ghandour looks at the absurdity of Trump's so-called "Board of Peace" for Gaza.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum keeps returning to the same questions: How is space regulated, surveilled, and colonized? And...
30 JANUARY 2026 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Raja Shehadeh offers a simple but impossible answer to this simple but impossible question: "And yet we must."
30 JANUARY 2026 • By Raja Shehadeh
Kamal Aljafari's new-old film historicizes Gaza in its demise.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By Jim Quilty
Palestinian artists have long turned their people’s struggle into vibrant expression.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By Gabriel Polley
Immediacy matters in this collection because it fundamentally alters how the poems should be read — not "about"...
30 JANUARY 2026 • By Sholeh Wolpé
Coffee, gas, warmth — basic things to many, but in Gaza, they become rarities.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By Esraa Abo Qamar
A young writer reports that safe transportation remains dangerously scarce.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By Mariam Mushtaha
