The Mediterranean, generative yet unstable, is a site of passage and border, a space of paradise and ruin.
1 MAY 2026 • By Saleem Haddad
Dalel Ouasli recounts the mythistorema of the Mediterranean, from its ancient origins to contemporary narratives.
1 MAY 2026 • By Jordan Elgrably
In a crowded bar on the Calabrian coast, love and shame grow side by side as a child...
1 MAY 2026 • By Emanuela Anechoum
Mount Athos and a scrolling screen collapse into a shifting sea of image and memory.
1 MAY 2026 • By Xloi Karnezi
A daughter recalls her father’s near-loss in a river, following the water outward into what the Mediterranean remembers.
1 MAY 2026 • By Gabriela Mitrushi
A writer ponders the accelerating demise of the world's oldest inhabited seas.
1 MAY 2026 • By Iason Athanasiadis
An Afghan refugee, survivor of a shipwreck, washes up on the shores of southern France and applies for...
2 JULY 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
Rose Issa talks to the Algerian artist about his Garden of Africa and other garden projects that honor...
4 JUNE 2023 • By Rose Issa
With illegal immigration from Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Libya at an all-time high, desperate North Africans risk death...
31 OCTOBER 2022 • By Sarah Ben Hamadi
In this magical tale set in Lebanon and on a mysterious Mediterranean island, people dream of escape while...
15 JUNE 2022 • By Sarah AlKahly-Mills
Columnist Iason Athanasiadis remembers 2020 not so much for the pandemic or the chaos of Trump but what...
10 JANUARY 2021 • By Francisco Letelier
