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Burning Forests, Burning Nations

Burning Forests, Burning Nations

Columnist Hadani Ditmars recounts meeting strangers at the beach during fire season in British Columbia and finds Syria...

15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Mohja Kahf
Day of the Imprisoned Writer — November 15, 2021

Day of the Imprisoned Writer — November 15, 2021

TMR On November 15th, every year now for the last 40 years, PEN International has observed the Day...

8 NOVEMBER 2021 • By TMR
Kurdish Poet and Writer Meral Şimşek Merits Her Freedom

Kurdish Poet and Writer Meral Şimşek Merits Her Freedom

Jordan Elgrably   Imagine, if you will, being put on trial for publishing poems and stories extolling the...

4 OCTOBER 2021 • By Jordan Elgrably
Displaced: From Beirut to Los Angeles to Beirut

Displaced: From Beirut to Los Angeles to Beirut

Ara Oshagan I am walking along the narrow and labyrinthine Armenian neighborhoods of Bourj Hammoud in Beirut—spaces with...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Ara Oshagan
Why Resistance Is Foundational to Kurdish Literature

Why Resistance Is Foundational to Kurdish Literature

Kurdish writer Ava Homa on how statelessness, trauma and political exile shaped her novel "Daughters of Smoke and...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Ava Homa
The Limits of Empathy in Rabih Alameddine’s Refugee Saga

The Limits of Empathy in Rabih Alameddine’s Refugee Saga

The Wrong End of the Telescope a novel by Rabih Alameddine Grove Atlantic (Sept 2021) ISBN 9780802157805 Dima...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By khulud khamis
Women Comic Artists, from Afghanistan to Morocco

Women Comic Artists, from Afghanistan to Morocco

Anthropologist and comix author Sherine Hamdy provides a brief overview of new and recent Arab & Middle Eastern...

15 AUGUST 2021 • By Sherine Hamdy
An Anthropologist Tells of 1970s Upheaval in “Turkish Kaleidoscope”

An Anthropologist Tells of 1970s Upheaval in “Turkish Kaleidoscope”

Novelist and university professor Jenny White creates a graphic novel on 1970s Turkey with illustrator Ergün Gündüz.

15 AUGUST 2021 • By Jenny White
World Picks: August 2021

World Picks: August 2021

Travel the world, meet people, see great places, without ever leaving the comfort of your screen…well, in some...

12 AUGUST 2021 • By Fouad Mami
Summer of ‘21 Reading—Notes from the Editors

Summer of ‘21 Reading—Notes from the Editors

Our editors reveal their diverse literary interests, with more than a dozen recommendations for summer reading.

25 JULY 2021 • By
World Picks: July 2021

World Picks: July 2021

Travel the world, meet people, see great places, without ever leaving the comfort of your screen…well, in some...

3 JULY 2021 • By
We Are All at the Border Now

We Are All at the Border Now

Roving reporter Todd Miller, who has published four books exploring the world and its borders, questions the philosophy...

14 MAY 2021 • By Todd Miller
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