Neemah Ahamed explores what home means when one's life is upended and what once held cherished emotions disintegrates.
7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Neemah Ahamed
Maysaa Alajjan describes having lived in one homeland that never accepted her, and belonging to another she never...
7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Maysaa Alajjan
The writer explores Lebanon's archives for traces of her family who left 150 years ago, contemplating our responsibilities...
6 JUNE 2025 • By Amelia Izmanki
Feeling that her childhood home differed from her birthplace, writer Mai Al-Nakib perceives home as more imaginary than...
2 MAY 2025 • By Mai Al-Nakib
The Trees spoke above the screams, the fires, the bombs, the droughts, across the oasis, forests, and streams...
7 MARCH 2025 • By Alia Yunis
A Pultizer winner for his play "Disgraced," Ayad Akhtar is the current President of PEN America and author...
5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
An excerpt from Inaan Kachachi's novel that laments the scattering of Iraqis across the world as a result...
5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Inaam Kachachi
Viola Shafik profiles Berlin-based Palestinian photographer Mohamed Badarne.
15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Karim Kattan
Hisham Bustani meditates on the asylum seeker's struggle to find a place to call home.
15 JANUARY 2022 • By Hisham Bustani