Can love transform in the face of bombs, drones, AI surveillance, snipers, annexation, and expulsion?
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Goran Candan founded the Kurdish Exile Museum to preserve an endangered heritage. Today, his life's work is at risk.
03 JULY, 2026 • By Nasim T. Stone
A self-described "memory carrier" has spent her life fighting for LGBTQI+, trans, and Kurdish rights, often through theatrical defiance.
03 JULY, 2026 • By Ali
Much of Doğan's groundbreaking art was created in prison out of the materials at hand: hair, coffee, blood.
03 JULY, 2026 • By Rojda Idil Arslan
The Mediterranean, generative yet unstable, is a site of passage and border, a space of paradise and ruin.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Saleem Haddad
In this quietly devastating short story set in Gaza, the sea offers a fleeting illusion of paradise — before the war returns.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Aisha Abdel Gawad
An artist and "artivist" from Larache, Morocco shares two paintings that reflect his perceptions of life along the Med.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Mohamed El Metmari
In this film, conventional narratives and terms are cleverly subverted to explore dislocation and more.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Jim Quilty
Speaking from a crossroads of Mediterranean migration and diaspora — Rome — these poems ask urgent if unanswerable questions.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Nathalie Handal
Çağlı’s poems travel across magical seas and through centuries.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Leyla Çağlı, Mustafa Ziyalan
Her work recounts the mythistorema of the Mediterranean, from ancient origins to contemporary narratives.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Jordan Elgrably
A ferry ride across the Bosphorus becomes a reckoning with a life left behind.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
In a crowded bar on the Calabrian coast, love and shame grow side by side.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Emanuela Anechoum
