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
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
Hatoum keeps returning to the same question: How is space regulated, surveilled, and colonized?
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
