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When the Wound Sings: Israelis Quote Poet Yahia Lababidi

When the Wound Sings: Israelis Quote Poet Yahia Lababidi

A reflection on the moral complexity of art during genocide and grief, highlighting the healing power of poetry,...

18 JULY 2025 • By Yahia Lababidi
Memoricide Voided by Four Palestinian Women Diarists

Memoricide Voided by Four Palestinian Women Diarists

"Voices of Resistance" stands as a vital work of testimonial literature that refuses to be forgotten, writes Francesca...

4 JULY 2025 • By Francesca Vawdrey
From A World Not Ours to a Land Unknown

From A World Not Ours to a Land Unknown

Exiled Palestinian Mahdi Fleifel’s fiction debut "To a Land Unknown" provides a masterful bookend to his documentary on...

13 JUNE 2025 • By Jim Quilty
Between Two Sieges: Translating Roger Assaf in California

Between Two Sieges: Translating Roger Assaf in California

Letters from a displaced Lebanese poet today to civil war-era actor-director Roger Assaf evoke Beirut in 1982, 2006...

8 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Zeina Hashem Beck
Don’t Look Left: A Diary of Genocide by Atif Abu Saif

Don’t Look Left: A Diary of Genocide by Atif Abu Saif

A Gaza diary that is a physician's personal testimony on life under excruciating, unrelenting bombardment, loss and hardship.

20 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Selma Dabbagh
“Kill the Music”—an excerpt from a new novel by Badar Salem

“Kill the Music”—an excerpt from a new novel by Badar Salem

In this excerpt from Badar Salem's "Deserted as a Crowded Room," Majdal falls in love with a West...

16 AUGUST 2024 • By Badar Salem
Where is the Palestinian National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art?

Where is the Palestinian National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art?

Nora Ounnas Leroy reviews the Palestine collection in MO.CO's "Museums in Exile" exhibition, in Montpellier through Feb. 5,...

12 DECEMBER 2022 • By Ani Zonneveld
From “Anahita” to Ÿuma, Festival Arabesques Dazzles Thousands

From “Anahita” to Ÿuma, Festival Arabesques Dazzles Thousands

Writing from Montpellier, Angélique Crux highlights four musical performances in a Middle Eastern arts festival that has no...

26 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Sulafa Zidani
Desire and the Palestinian Kitchen

Desire and the Palestinian Kitchen

A take on desire from a masterful cook and Bethlehem chef, Fadi Kattan.

15 MARCH 2022 • By Ella Shohat
Hand-Written Love Letters and Words of the Great Arab Poets

Hand-Written Love Letters and Words of the Great Arab Poets

Artist Reem Mouasher shares her recent series of paintings, inspired by the era of hand-written love letters, borrowing...

15 MARCH 2022 • By Atia Shafee
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