Can love transform in the face of bombs, drones, AI surveillance, snipers, annexation, and expulsion?
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Honoring the memory of US serviceman Aaron Bushnell, who died for truth and justice in protest of US aid to Israel.
04 OCTOBER, 2024 • By Samina Najmi
A bleak and sobering account for those who may still have wanted to believe in the enlightening power of the image.
04 OCTOBER, 2024 • By Viola Shafik
A Beiruti interrogates her country's perennial condition with its neighbor in the aftermath of October 7 and the bloodcurdling aftershocks.
04 OCTOBER, 2024 • By Amal Ghandour
As Beirut anticipates a military invasion, MK Harb's short story about two friends sharing a slice of cake unfolds.
04 OCTOBER, 2024 • By MK Harb
Refugee camps, control, and dispossessed lives by artists Heba Tannous, Mahmoud Alhaj, Tayseer Barakat, Alaa Albaba, and photographer Iason Athnasiadis.
06 SEPTEMBER, 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Maha Al Aswad sheds light on Egyptian writer Mohammad Hafez Ragab, a literary figure of the 1960s whose works have been vastly overlooked.
06 SEPTEMBER, 2024 • By Maha Al Aswad, Rana Asfour
Omar Zahzah argues that Meta censors free speech for Palestine because it is a US dominant corporate platform that takes support for Israel for granted.
06 SEPTEMBER, 2024 • By Omar Zahzah
In Nektaria Anastasiadou's experience, agents, publishers and editors often have peculiar ideas about what constitutes Middle East fiction.
06 SEPTEMBER, 2024 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
Maged Mandour’s new book examines El-Sisi's exercise and abuse of power in post-revolutionary Egypt.
06 SEPTEMBER, 2024 • By Elias Feroz
When religious fanatics in Lebanon aren’t fighting one another, they make the best war comrades against modernity, secularism, and freedom of expression.
06 SEPTEMBER, 2024 • By Joumana Haddad
Ammiel Alcalay writes of the gatekeepers who have affected every aspect of his writing, cultural, and public life.
06 SEPTEMBER, 2024 • By Ammiel Alcalay
Gatekeepers of Baghdad decide who lives, who dies, during 2019 protests against high unemployment, state corruption, and poor services.
06 SEPTEMBER, 2024 • By Ali Ramthan Hussein, Essam M. Al-Jassim
