
Can love transform in the face of bombs, drones, AI surveillance, snipers, annexation, and expulsion?
READ MOREMaisan Hamdan, a single Palestinian woman, attempts to survive in Berlin without a cell phone.
15 SEPTEMBER, 2022 • By Maisan Hamdan, Rana AsfourThe world may be driving us crazy, but sharing our stories across cultures and borders is one way to hang on to our sanity.
15 JULY, 2022 • By TMRA solitary bachelor, seeking success as a writer, wonders what he has to do in contemporary Cairo to get ahead.
15 JULY, 2022 • By Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi, Rana AsfourMischa Geracoulis reviews the film in which a Paris-trained shrink analyzes fellow Tunisians suffering from mental maladies.
15 JULY, 2022 • By Mischa GeracoulisA writer born into both Arabic and Hebrew linguistic traditions finds herself writing in English but longing for Arabic.
11 JULY, 2022 • By Ayelet TsabariThe Egyptian novelist and author of "Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in Prison" finds versions of Islam in the Nevada desert.
15 JUNE, 2022 • By Ahmed Naji, Rana AsfourA preview of the new Arabic novel from the author of "I Killed Scheherazade" and "Superman is an Arab."
15 JUNE, 2022 • By Joumana Haddad, Rana AsfourWinner of the 2022 PEN/Faulkner award, novelist Rabih Alameddine tells an essential story from his Beirut childhood.
15 JUNE, 2022 • By Rabih AlameddineOne of contemporary Iran's best storytellers conjures a tale of octogenarian love in a Nabokovian mode.
15 JUNE, 2022 • By Alireza IranmehrA wayward daughter leaves Boston to spend a summer back home in Cairo, where she observes the decline of her once prominent family.
15 JUNE, 2022 • By Amany Kamal EldinFormer prisoner and Egyptian writer in exile Ahmed Naji contemplates what it means to be a "brown writer" in exile in America.
15 JANUARY, 2022 • By Ahmed Naji, Rana AsfourIason Athanasiadis paints the portrait of Bahoz, a stateless Kurd who will keep fighting to become accepted for asylum in Europe.
15 JANUARY, 2022 • By Iason Athanasiadis