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The anger and sadness I brought back from Damascus. And the urge to shave my head

The anger and sadness I brought back from Damascus. And the urge to shave my head

Batoul Ahmad, during a ten-year absence from Damascus, reconstructs her sense of home through memory and self-discovery in...

2 MAY 2025 • By Batoul Ahmad
On Forgiveness and Path—an Exhibition in Damascus

On Forgiveness and Path—an Exhibition in Damascus

In post-regime Syria, forgiveness is not resolution—it’s a quiet demand for justice in the language of art.

18 APRIL 2025 • By Robert Bociaga
Courage and Compassion, a Memoir of War and its Aftermath

Courage and Compassion, a Memoir of War and its Aftermath

Nektaria Anastasiadou reviews polyglot Tony Molho's memoir about the Holocaust in Greece and his family history.

18 OCTOBER 2024 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
Why FORGETTING?

Why FORGETTING?

What shall we forget and what shall we remember, and can forgetting also be a force for good?...

3 MAY 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Memory Archive: Between Remembering and Forgetting

Memory Archive: Between Remembering and Forgetting

Mai Al-Nakib explores memory, forgetting, and writing through the lenses of Woolf, Proust, and a Wim Wenders film.

3 MAY 2024 • By Mai Al-Nakib
Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies

Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies

Brittany Landorf reviews the first major film of director Asmae El Moudir, Morocco’s entry for the 2024 Academy...

3 MAY 2024 • By Brittany Landorf
The Elephant in the Box

The Elephant in the Box

Revisiting her memories of Egypt's January 25 revolution, Asmaa Elgamal finds that denying common sense is the worst...

3 MAY 2024 • By Asmaa Elgamal
Forgotten & Silenced Histories in Moroccan Other-Archives

Forgotten & Silenced Histories in Moroccan Other-Archives

Language, gender, class, race, and geography shape citizenship in Morocco today, argues Brahim El Guabli in his latest...

3 MAY 2024 • By Natalie Bernstien
The Art of Letting Go: On the Path to Willful Abandonment

The Art of Letting Go: On the Path to Willful Abandonment

Nashwa Nasreldine explores the importance of holding onto failed attempts to capture fleeting moments for the sake of...

3 MAY 2024 • By Nashwa Nasreldin
An Iranian Novelist Seeks the Truth About a Plane Crash

An Iranian Novelist Seeks the Truth About a Plane Crash

Novelist Négar Djavadi deploys non-fiction to question Iran's downing of an international flight out of Tehran.

15 JANUARY 2024 • By Sepideh Farkhondeh
“The Hauntology of Varosha” or “Room Number 137 of the Argo Hotel”

“The Hauntology of Varosha” or “Room Number 137 of the Argo Hotel”

A Cypriot writer's story about a forgotten child in an abandoned town the writer looked on to from...

5 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Salamis Aysegul Sentug Tugyan
Memory Art: Water and Islands in the Work of Hera Büyüktaşçıyan

Memory Art: Water and Islands in the Work of Hera Büyüktaşçıyan

Arie Amaya-Akkermans does a deep dive into the fascinating career of Istanbul-born Greek Armenian artist Hera Büyüktaşçıyan.

18 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
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