Leaving Abdoh, Finding Chamran
Salar Abdoh reflects on returning to Iran, burdened by injustice and a desire to reconnect with a culture that has normalized disinformation.
Salar Abdoh reflects on returning to Iran, burdened by injustice and a desire to reconnect with a culture that has normalized disinformation.
Sudanese artists in exile are keeping their identity and heritage alive while they await the chance to return home.
Feeling that her childhood home differed from her birthplace, writer Mai Al-Nakib perceives home as more imaginary than real.
Not even escalating tensions between Israel and Iran could stop one wayward Iranian from returning home to see his father one last time.
Young Palestinian citizens of Israel navigate life facing a unique position as both insiders and outsiders.
The Egyptian author of an epistolary novel — his first in English — meditates on whether his work will join the canon of world literature.
Baxtyar Hamasur has dedicated his life to stories, even wearing a pair of story glasses. “I see everything as a story,” he says.
Continuously displaced Palestinians redefine "home" in Osama Kahlout’s surprising photographs from the war on Gaza.
An entire family is preoccupied with its history and questions of national identity, confounded by France’s rejection of the pieds-noirs.
Exile retold through embroidered Palestinian stories, by documentary photographer and visual storyteller Rasha Al Jundi.
Hamilton Cain reviews a police procedural that connects Norfolk, Virginia with the late Iraq War and the streets of Mosul.
Filmmaker and educator Saeed Taji Farouky argues that the Palestine of memories is often the only Palestine we have.
The daughter of an Indian expatriate family in Oman discovers that the only home she's ever yearned for was the place always meant to be impermanent.
Amal, a student who lives in a Palestinian refugee camp, takes up drama as an outlet for the Occupation blues, but is dealt a sad surprise.
Jennifer Hattam reviews "After the Birds: Utopia" at Istanbul's Sadberk Hanım Museum — an exhibition inspired by refugees.