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9 May, 2025 • Elena Pare

Djinns Unveils Silence in the Home

Djinns emerge in a fractured home in Istanbul, reflecting the intercultural and intergenerational tensions in Fatma Aydemir’s family saga.

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2 May, 2025 • Salar Abdoh

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.

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2 May, 2025 • Ati Metwaly

Exile and Hope: Sudanese creatives and the question of home

Sudanese artists in exile are keeping their identity and heritage alive while they await the chance to return home.

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2 May, 2025 • Mai Al-Nakib

Home is Elsewhere: On the Fictions of Return

Feeling that her childhood home differed from her birthplace, writer Mai Al-Nakib perceives home as more imaginary than real.

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2 May, 2025 • Raha Nik-Andish

Looking for a Job, Living and Dying in Iran: The Logistics of Going Back

Not even escalating tensions between Israel and Iran could stop one wayward Iranian from returning home to see his father one last time.

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2 May, 2025 • Sophia Didinova

Strangers at Home: Young Palestinians in Israel

Young Palestinian citizens of Israel navigate life facing a unique position as both insiders and outsiders.

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4 April, 2025 • Youssef Rakha

Four Gates to the Hereafter: On The Dissenters

The Egyptian author of an epistolary novel — his first in English — meditates on whether his work will join the canon of world literature.

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7 February, 2025 • Jiyar Homer, Hannah Fox

Baxtyar Hamasur: “A Strand of Hair Shaped Like the Letter J”

Baxtyar Hamasur has dedicated his life to stories, even wearing a pair of story glasses. “I see everything as a story,” he says.

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31 May, 2024 • Nadine Aranki

What Is Home?—Gazans Redefine Place Amid Displacement

Continuously displaced Palestinians redefine "home" in Osama Kahlout’s surprising photographs from the war on Gaza.

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31 May, 2024 • Katherine A. Powers

This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud —A Review

An entire family is preoccupied with its history and questions of national identity, confounded by France’s rejection of the pieds-noirs.

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16 October, 2023 • Rasha Al Jundi

The Ongoing Nakba—Rasha Al-Jundi’s Embroidery Series

Exile retold through embroidered Palestinian stories, by documentary photographer and visual storyteller Rasha Al Jundi.

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29 May, 2023 • Hamilton Cain

The Yellow Birds Author Returns With Iraq War/Noir Mystery

Hamilton Cain reviews a police procedural that connects Norfolk, Virginia with the late Iraq War and the streets of Mosul.

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5 March, 2023 • Saeed Taji Farouky

More Photographs Taken From The Pocket of a Dead Arab

Filmmaker and educator Saeed Taji Farouky argues that the Palestine of memories is often the only Palestine we have.

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5 March, 2023 • Priyanka Sacheti

Home is a House in Oman

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.

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27 February, 2023 • Asim Rizki

“Holy Land”—short fiction from Asim Rizki

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.

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