Somewhere in Tehran, a child feels the same incomprehensible terror as foreign missiles fall, just as the writer...
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Hassan Blasim’s work is not imitation. His is a voice forged in exile, and steeped in the paradoxes...
25 APRIL 2025 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
An NYU professor who has frequently taught this Iraqi novel finds that two months into Trump 2.0, its...
21 MARCH 2025 • By Deborah Williams
The November 2024 featured artist is the late German-Iraqi sculptor Lin May Saeed, much of whose work celebrated...
1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Art, activism, archaeology, and archiving are crucial for rebuilding and healing cities by combining the past and present.
23 AUGUST 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
To celebrate the forthcoming publication of Selim Temo's "Nightlands," we present an introductory essay and two poems from...
9 AUGUST 2024 • By Zêdan Xelef
From sound and installation to sculpture & photography, art and a history of violence collide in Rushdi Anwar’s...
10 MAY 2024 • By Malu Halasa