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2 May, 2025 • Batoul Ahmad

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 Australia.

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18 April, 2025 • Robert Bociaga

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.

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18 October, 2024 • Nektaria Anastasiadou

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.

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3 May, 2024 • Malu Halasa, Jordan Elgrably

Why FORGETTING?

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

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3 May, 2024 • Mai Al-Nakib

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.

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3 May, 2024 • Brittany Landorf

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 Awards.

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3 May, 2024 • Asmaa Elgamal

The Elephant in the Box

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

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3 May, 2024 • Natalie Bernstien, Mustapha Outbakat

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 book.

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3 May, 2024 • Nashwa Nasreldin

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 our souls and poetry.

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15 January, 2024 • Sepideh Farkhondeh

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.

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5 November, 2023 • Salamis Aysegul Sentug Tugyan

“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 her window in Cyprus.

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18 September, 2023 • Arie Amaya-Akkermans

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.

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21 August, 2023 • Arie Amaya-Akkermans

On Museums and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage

Arie Amaya-Akkermans on the history of war, colonialism, memory and how museums strive to preserve and display artifacts and art.

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2 July, 2023 • Mai Al-Nakib

“The Burden of Inheritance”—fiction from Mai Al-Nakib

In Mai Al-Nakib’s new short story, a woman makes a Herculean effort to preserve the memory and artwork of her late husband.

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19 June, 2023 • Arie Amaya-Akkermans

The Ghost of Gezi Park—Turkey 10 Years On

An art critic comments on the 10th anniversary of the Gezi Park protests with an overview of a decade of corresponding Turkish art.

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