A Letter To My Cruel Lover: Tripoli
My Tripoli breathes gunpowder, // … the city where mosques are bombed and streets get emptied. // … How can my Lebanon be their Lebanon?
The Imagination Interviews
Arabic Jazz and Yazz Ahmed: A Music Between Homelands
Arabic jazz challenges stereotypes amid rising xenophobia in the West and colonial violence in the Arab world.
Looking for a Job, Living and Dying in Iran: The Logistics of Going Back
Not even escalating tensions between Israel and Iran could stop one wayward Iranian from returning home to see his father one last time.
The anger and sadness I brought back from Damascus. And the urge to shave my head
Batoul Ahmad, during a ten-year absence from Damascus, reconstructs her sense of home through memory and self-discovery in Australia.
“Return to Salé,” an excerpt from Le Bastion des Larmes
Returning to Salé, his hometown in Morocco, a writer and educator is haunted by the voice of a gay lover, who insists on being remembered.
Strangers at Home: Young Palestinians in Israel
Young Palestinian citizens of Israel navigate life facing a unique position as both insiders and outsiders.
“Return to Ramallah,” an excerpt from Too Soon by Betty Shamieh
Shamieh's novel "Too Soon" invites the audience to reflect on their relationships with home and the multifaceted nature of belonging.
Return to Iraq: Sama Alshaibi’s ‘طرس’
Sama Alshaibi’s new project focuses on the spatial, material, and technological fragments that narrate the story of a place and its people.
The Pen and the Sword—Censorship Threatens Us All
Anna Badkhen argues that the moral bankruptcy of American intellectuals…will only kick us down the hole deeper, faster.
مقتطف من رواية رانية حسين أمين: شخصيات مش متشافة
في روايتها المصورة «شخصيات مش متشافة»، تكتب وترسم رانية حسين أمين عن تلك الشخصيات التي لا نراها، لأننا لا نمعن النظر بما فيه الكفاية، أو لأنها شخصيات تخشى الظهور، مع ذلك، تبدي جميعها رغبة في أن تُرى. في رحلة بين العلاج النفسي وتفاصيل الحياة اليومية، ترينا رانية ما نغض بصرنا…
مقتطف من كتاب حسن عبد الموجود: أم كلثوم من الميلاد إلى الأسطورة
عن أم كلثوم يكتب حسن عبد الموجود خمسين حكاية أدبية قصيرة، يحكي كتاب «أم كلثوم من الميلاد إلى الأسطورة» علامات مميزة في تاريخ الست، أشهر مطربة مصرية في القرن العشرين، ويرسم للقارئ صورة حية لها، ولعلاقتها بمصر وتاريخها في تلك الحقبة.
Germany’s Most Rightwing Parliament Since WWII—Liberals Panic, Immigrants Roll Their Eyes
Laila Abdalla, a young Egyptian journalist transplanted to Germany, sizes up the rightward drift of the country.
Hassan Blasim’s Sololand features Three Novellas on Iraq
Hassan Blasim’s work is not imitation. His is a voice forged in exile, and steeped in the paradoxes of displacement.
May World Picks from the Editors
Film and writers’ festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures, new books, art residencies, and writing workshops.
Three Poems by Najwan Darwish
Najwan Darwish, author of nine books of poetry, on Palestine, love and loss, from his new definitive poetry collection.