Ava Homa how statelessness, trauma and political exile shaped her novel Daughters of Smoke and Fire Coming of age as a Kurdish girl in Iran, I learned early on… Continue reading Why Resistance Is Foundational to Kurdish Literature
The Wrong End of the Telescope a novel by Rabih Alameddine Grove Atlantic (Sept 2021) ISBN 9780802157805 Dima Alzayat When in 2018 director Lena Dunham announced she had been hired… Continue reading The Limits of Empathy in Rabih Alameddine’s Refugee Saga
Anthropologist and comix author Sherine Hamdy provides a brief overview of new and recent Arab & Middle Eastern women’s political cartooning.
Travel the world, meet people, see great places, without ever leaving the comfort of your screen…well, in some cases you can go in person!
Our editors reveal their diverse literary interests, with more than a dozen recommendations for summer reading.
Travel the world, meet people, see great places, without ever leaving the comfort of your screen…well, in some cases you can go in person!
Roving reporter Todd Miller, who has published four books exploring the world and its borders, questions the philosophy of walls.
We accompany a family fleeing civil war for safe harbor, in a short story by Aida Y. Haddad.
Kurdish poet and scholar Selîm Temo, takes us inside the continuing Academics for Peace struggle through his personal story.
Kurdish poet-scholar-translator Selîm Temo thinks of the young Thomas Bernhard and his infant son as he fights for life in intensive care.
Arabs/Muslims and Iranians have become the scapegoats and villains du jour, yet many are thriving creatively.