Iason Athanasiadis paints the portrait of Bahoz, a stateless Kurd who will keep fighting to become accepted for...
15 JANUARY 2022 • By Iason Athanasiadis
Thomas Dallal reviews Haider Rashid's new feature film, "Europa," Iraq’s foreign feature film entry to the upcoming 94th...
15 JANUARY 2022 • By Angeles Espinosa
Our columnist compares Arab/Muslim and Jewish humor and finds more in common than one might expect.
15 DECEMBER 2021 • By Mohja Kahf
Hadani Ditmars reviews Janine di Giovanni's ambitious new travelogue on beleaguered Christian communities in Iraq, Gaza, Syria, and...
15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Mohja Kahf
In which the editor of "Poetic Justice: An Anthology of Contemporary Moroccan Poetry" remembers her introduction to life...
8 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Deborah Kapchan
An excerpt from Sarah Mirk's graphic novel describes life in the infamous US prison in Cuba.
15 OCTOBER 2021 • By Sarah Mirk
Kurdish writer Ava Homa on how statelessness, trauma and political exile shaped her novel "Daughters of Smoke and...
15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Ava Homa
Excerpted from the anthology Kurdish Women’s Stories (Pluto Press, 2020), by special arrangement with editor Houzan Mahmoud. ...
15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Kobra Banehi
On the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, Hadani Ditmars remembers the treasures and the ruins of Afghanistan...
16 AUGUST 2021 • By Mohja Kahf
Travel the world, meet people, see great places, without ever leaving the comfort of your screen…well, in some...
12 AUGUST 2021 • By Fouad Mami
Our editors reveal their diverse literary interests, with more than a dozen recommendations for summer reading.
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Jessica Proett reviews Salar Abdoh's empirical novel set during the days when ISIS was running loose across Iraq...
4 JULY 2021 • By Jessica Proett
