Writer, translator and artist Nouha Hamad tells three tales passed down as family legend connecting the 19th and...
15 DECEMBER 2021 • By Deborah Kapchan
British-Syrian novelist Rana Haddad compares her experience growing up in Syria with the way people beyond Syria's borders...
29 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Rana Haddad
Columnist Hadani Ditmars recounts meeting strangers at the beach during fire season in British Columbia and finds Syria...
15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Mohja Kahf
Hadani Ditmars reviews Janine di Giovanni's ambitious new travelogue on beleaguered Christian communities in Iraq, Gaza, Syria, and...
15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Mohja Kahf
In which our columnist flies up to Thessaloniki and visits the Diavata camp for refugees seeking European asylum...
1 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Francisco Letelier
A Syrian refugee successfully resettled in Brussels shares part of his story.
15 OCTOBER 2021 • By
Kurdish writer Ava Homa on how statelessness, trauma and political exile shaped her novel "Daughters of Smoke and...
15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Ava Homa
Our editors reveal their diverse literary interests, with more than a dozen recommendations for summer reading.
25 JULY 2021 • By
Jessica Proett reviews Salar Abdoh's empirical novel set during the days when ISIS was running loose across Iraq...
4 JULY 2021 • By Jessica Proett
Lawrence Joffe on how the al-Assad and Makhlouf families have mastered the art of control and corruption in...
14 JUNE 2021 • By Lawrence Joffe
Rana Asfour reviews Faysal Khartash's Roundabout of Death and Zeyn Joukhadar's The Map of Salt and Stars.
30 MAY 2021 • By TMR
Roving reporter Todd Miller, who has published four books exploring the world and its borders, questions the philosophy...
14 MAY 2021 • By Todd Miller
