Like a classic noir narrative in which morality blurs and truth is slippery, the world today feels increasingly absurd and nihilistic.
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Writer Mai Al-Nakib explores the fictions of homecoming and the potentialities of exile.
02 MAY, 2025 • By Mai Al-Nakib
Sudanese artists in exile are keeping their identity and heritage alive while they await the chance to return home.
02 MAY, 2025 • By Ati Metwaly
Poet Lara Kassem explores her conflicted feelings about home, identity, and longing.
02 MAY, 2025 • By Lara Kassem
Arabic jazz challenges stereotypes amid rising xenophobia in the West and colonial violence in the Arab world.
02 MAY, 2025 • By Gabriel Polley
Not even escalating tensions between Israel and Iran could stop one wayward Iranian from returning home to see his father one last time.
02 MAY, 2025 • By Raha Nik-Andish
Batoul Ahmad, during a ten-year absence from Damascus, reconstructs her sense of home through memory and self-discovery in Australia.
02 MAY, 2025 • By Batoul Ahmad
Young Palestinian citizens of Israel navigate life facing a unique position as both insiders and outsiders.
02 MAY, 2025 • By Sophia Didinova
Shamieh's novel invites the audience to reflect on notions of home and the multifaceted nature of belonging.
02 MAY, 2025 • By Betty Shamieh
Can love transform in the face of bombs, drones, AI surveillance, snipers, annexation, and expulsion?
07 MARCH, 2025 • By Malu Halasa, Jordan Elgrably
From blindfolding potential dates to threating them with cockroaches, Iranian YouTube dating game shows go viral and the regime takes action.
07 MARCH, 2025 • By Malu Halasa
Mous Lamrabat’s latest solo show explores the emotional weight of displacement, memory, identity, and love.
07 MARCH, 2025 • By Naima Morelli
Beirut graphic novelist Rawand Issa found she could begin to think more intimately about life and love by studying her mom's chickens, and roosters.
07 MARCH, 2025 • By Rawand Issa, Anam Zafar
