A writer returns to her homeland — Lebanon — after years abroad, tracing the fault lines between memory...
19 JUNE 2026 • By Lara Atallah
The ghostly presence of the Nakba casts an ominous shadow over this newly translated novel by a former...
15 MAY 2026 • By Francesca Vawdrey
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 questions whether physical ailments stem from a cultural silencing, in this case of Turkish identity.
6 MARCH 2026 • By Amy Omar
A simple debate over a spoon opens a space in which a group of Syrian migrants reclaim an...
6 MARCH 2026 • By Zeinab Ghassan Khaddour
Kamal Aljafari's new-old film historicizes Gaza in its demise.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By Jim Quilty
In "The Years of Blood" a Nigerian poet grapples with the violence of a nation struggling to find...
1 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Adedayo Agarau
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
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
Nektaria Anastasiadou reviews polyglot Tony Molho's memoir about the Holocaust in Greece and his family history.
18 OCTOBER 2024 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
What shall we forget and what shall we remember, and can forgetting also be a force for good?...
3 MAY 2024 • By Malu Halasa
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
