Refugees Detained in Thessonaliki’s Diavata Camp Await Asylum
In which our columnist flies up to Thessaloniki and visits the Diavata camp for refugees seeking European asylum — no one is illegal, everyone merits a better life.
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Interview With Prisoner X, Accused by the Bashar Al-Assad Regime of Terrorism
A Syrian refugee successfully resettled in Brussels shares part of his story.
Voyage of Lost Keys, an Armenian art installation
Aimée Papazian Art and text by Aimée Papazian; photos by Stephen Ironside “Voyage of Lost Keys,” a permanent art installation recently installed in the Fayetteville Public Library in Arkansas,… Continue reading Voyage of Lost Keys, an Armenian art installation
Summer of ‘21 Reading—Notes from the Editors
Our editors reveal their diverse literary interests, with more than a dozen recommendations for summer reading.
No Exit
Who in the west has survived a childhood, adolescence and adult years under the bombs, where no place is safe? Allam Zedan shares his story.
Why WALLS?
"I would like to break the walls of ignorance between East and West." Walls and barriers are what we erect when we have no words.
A Home Across the Azure Sea
We accompany a family fleeing civil war for safe harbor, in a short story by Aida Y. Haddad.
From Damascus to Birmingham, a Selected Glossary
Frances Zaid describes in epistolary fashion the language barriers in her blooming relationship (leading to marriage and kids) with a three-time refugee from the Yarmouk Camp.
Hassan Blasim’s “God 99”
God 99 blurs the boundaries between fiction and autobiography, reportage and the novel. It blends the fantastic with the everyday to explore themes of exile, humanity, art and philosophy.