A conversation between writers unfolds into a meditation on exile, memory, and how history inhabits our most private...
10 JULY 2026 • By Saleem Haddad
A columnist turns her keen eye to the almost absurd evolution of the framework hammered out between Lebanon...
10 JULY 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
A Palestinian teacher remembers the sister who taught her the passive voice, not knowing that grammar would be...
10 JULY 2026 • By Hanan Habashi
The 61st Venice Biennale is one of many cultural institutions beginning to crack under the weight of their...
26 JUNE 2026 • By Selma Dabbagh
The Mediterranean, generative yet unstable, is a site of passage and border, a space of paradise and ruin.
1 MAY 2026 • By Saleem Haddad
In this quietly devastating short story set in Gaza, the sea offers a fleeting illusion of paradise —...
1 MAY 2026 • By Aisha Abdel Gawad
At a Berlin residency, a Gazan writer finds unexpected kinship among women bound by cross-border grief.
17 APRIL 2026 • By Alaa Alqaisi
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming battlegrounds, and is at the heart of many international assassinations.
13 MARCH 2026 • By Iason Athanasiadis
In the wake of genocide, a Palestinian American loses her words — until she finds her way in...
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
