In the controversial documentary film NAZA, filmmakers grant the soldiers an anonymity that they have rejected on the...
30 OCTOBER 2026 • By Nicki Kattoura
Amid a tense cultural and political climate, a palpable wariness hovered over Istanbul’s art programme this autumn.
30 OCTOBER 2026 • By Naima Morelli
Tunis’ ancient citadel is threatened by climate change and incompetence but could also offer solutions to hotter, wetter...
23 OCTOBER 2026 • By Iason Athanasiadis
Israel's strategy in Lebanon’s south is less a new military design than an "old and improved" version of...
23 OCTOBER 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
Belal Fadl offers an unromantic portrait of Cairo’s urban poor in The Completely True Tales of Um Mimi...
23 OCTOBER 2026 • By Salma Harland
The International Booker longlisted author on writing through uncertainty, the limits of fiction, and the quiet of the...
16 OCTOBER 2026 • By Saleem Haddad
The world appears to be barreling toward an apocalypse that proves, for better or worse, that we are...
25 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
A historian talks about the reckoning happening now—three years into a genocide—and where we might be headed.
25 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By TMR
This debut novel centers an oft-overlooked region between Iran and Iraq but is slowed by its didactic impulses.
25 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Matt Broomfield
A Palestinian novelist and poet reflects on the problems, pleasures, and peculiarities of writing fiction today.
18 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Saleem Haddad
No matter what Empire would like us to believe, history neither began, nor ended, on September 11, 2001.
11 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Ammiel Alcalay
