This anthology, while celebrating last year's best literary translations, aims to highlight writing from and about a world...
9 MAY 2025 • By Lara Vergnaud
A writer's satirical guide on how to write about the hapless, subjugated Kurds, if you're not already filming...
14 JUNE 2024 • By Matt Broomfield
Sevinç Unal relives her memories as she surveys the region of her family and childhood in southeastern Anatolia...
5 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Sevinç Ünal
Expressions of love in Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Turkish and Kurdish, to give Valentine's Day a new meaning.
13 FEBRUARY 2023 • By TMR
Ahmet Altan, one of Turkey's best-known novelists was locked up in prison, the key thrown away.
27 OCTOBER 2022 • By
Melissa Chemam is swept away by an Iraqi American artist's latest exhibit at Mosaic Rooms in London.
28 MARCH 2022 • By Melissa Chemam
Iason Athanasiadis paints the portrait of Bahoz, a stateless Kurd who will keep fighting to become accepted for...
15 JANUARY 2022 • By Iason Athanasiadis
Landscape is a charged notion in the Middle East—even the geographical term Middle East is not neutral, but...
14 DECEMBER 2020 • By Anne-Marie O'Connor