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How Much Do We Miss Umm Khulthum?

How Much Do We Miss Umm Khulthum?

Thinking about icons past and present, Amal Ghandour remembers Egypt's "Star of the East" on the 50th anniversary...

7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Amal Ghandour
The Grammar of Power: On Journalism, Grief, and the Stories That Break Us

The Grammar of Power: On Journalism, Grief, and the Stories That Break Us

This essay examines how grieving for Palestine is policed in classrooms, newsrooms, and across borders, revealing the cost...

7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Adam Makary
Lament For My Dear Cousin and Friend in Tulkarm

Lament For My Dear Cousin and Friend in Tulkarm

The Israeli army’s siege of Tulkarm prompts one writer to bear witness to the brutal consequences of conquest...

3 OCTOBER 2025 • By Thoth
Reading the Landscape: Cultural Clues and Regime Messages in Iran

Reading the Landscape: Cultural Clues and Regime Messages in Iran

Iran attempts to woo a weary populace with exhibitions, billboards, and even promises that past transgressions can be...

12 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Raha Nik-Andish
Unwritten Stories from Palestine

Unwritten Stories from Palestine

Thoth invites readers to witness the struggles of Palestinians and raise awareness of the ongoing catastrophe in the...

4 JULY 2025 • By Thoth
Life Under the Shadow of Missiles: the View From Iran

Life Under the Shadow of Missiles: the View From Iran

A writer-artist sits in a café in Tehran with a failing internet connection, risking life and limb to...

20 JUNE 2025 • By Amir
Neither Here Nor There

Neither Here Nor There

Envisioning innovative new futures that challenge conventional thinking and inspire transformative possibilities.

2 MAY 2025 • By Myriam Cohenca
Looking for a Job, Living and Dying in Iran: The Logistics of Going Back

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...

2 MAY 2025 • By Raha Nik-Andish
Gaza, Sudan, Israel/Palestine Documentaries Show in Thessaloniki

Gaza, Sudan, Israel/Palestine Documentaries Show in Thessaloniki

Three documentaries screened in Thessaloniki shed light on conflicts often absent from international media headlines.

28 MARCH 2025 • By Iason Athanasiadis
Memories of Palestine through Contemporary Media

Memories of Palestine through Contemporary Media

Malu Halasa reviews a psycho-social-virtual memoir of Palestine of both emotional and geographic proportions.

7 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Malu Halasa
A Fragile Ceasefire as Lebanon Survives, Traumatized

A Fragile Ceasefire as Lebanon Survives, Traumatized

Lebanon may have survived yet another Israeli onslaught but the people emerge scathed and timorous, as if from...

29 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Tarek Abi Samra
A Jewish Meditation on the Palestinian Genocide

A Jewish Meditation on the Palestinian Genocide

A Jewish American has been afraid to express her reservations and criticism of Israel's actions in Gaza, but...

15 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Sheryl Ono
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