A writer-artist sits in a café in Tehran with a failing internet connection, risking life and limb to...
20 JUNE 2025 • By Amir
Power has thousands of faces in thousands of postures. When you cut off one of its heads somewhere,...
7 MARCH 2025 • By Iskandar Abdalla
Alex Tan reviews a sci-fi anthology set in Egypt where all the writers aim to uplift the country...
2 AUGUST 2024 • By Alex Tan
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
Layla AlAmmar contemplates how the noise of the past can be perceived as a coherent narrative in hindsight.
3 MARCH 2024 • By Layla AlAmmar
An exclusive excerpt from the 2023 title "Hamas: From Resistance to Regime" by Paola Caridi, translated by Andrea...
25 DECEMBER 2023 • By Paola Caridi
Yesmine Abida recalls the end of her family's time in Tripoli and the beginning of a life without...
3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Yesmine Abida
Matthew Broomfield reviews a book on the Kurdish women's movement, which challenges hierarchical, patriarchal society.
31 JULY 2023 • By Matthew Broomfield
EMISSARIES is a new volume of original, irreverent short stories from Cairo-based author Youssef Rakha. Meet him and...
21 JUNE 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
Karim Goury reviews Ali Cherri's haunting feature film The Dam, set in Sudan before the outbreak of the...
4 JUNE 2023 • By Karim Goury
Speaking of Arab revolutions, Tugrul Mende reviews a new book from Stanford looking back at revolutionaries of Dhufar,...
15 MAY 2023 • By Tugrul Mende
