Power has thousands of faces in thousands of postures. When you cut off one of its heads somewhere,...
7 MARCH 2025 • By Iskandar Abdalla
A book challenging myths and stereotypes about sexuality in the Arab world, exploring the language of queerness in...
27 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Bahi Ghubril
In the violence of the Gaza war, a love that dares not speak its name blossoms at a...
5 JULY 2024 • By Stanko Uyi Srsen
In MK Harb's latest story, a man steps out of his home in Beirut after two years of...
2 JULY 2023 • By MK Harb
Ahmed Awadalla’s new story reveals sexual pleasure and doubt in a bathhouse in Beirut.
2 JULY 2023 • By Ahmed Awadalla
Sometimes you have to escape everything you know in order to become yourself.
2 JULY 2023 • By Abdellah Taïa
Ahmed Awadalla reflects on how his pursuit of freedom through a job in Cairo has led to growing...
1 MAY 2023 • By Ahmed Awadalla
Winner of the 2022 PEN/Faulkner award, novelist Rabih Alameddine tells an essential story from his Beirut childhood.
15 JUNE 2022 • By Maryam Mortaz
A bold excerpt from the new Saqi anthology, "This Arab is Queer," in which a non-binary person from...
15 JUNE 2022 • By Karén Jallatyan
Parisa Parnian aka the Savage Muse of Los Angeles, recalls the moment of her youthful liberation.
15 APRIL 2022 • By Anna Lekas Miller
