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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07 MARCH, 2025 • By Katie LoganThe Trees spoke above the screams, the fires, the bombs, the droughts, across the oasis, forests, and streams of her homeland.
07 MARCH, 2025 • By Alia YunisIn the southern suburbs of Beirut, women openly grieve those they have lost, in the wake of Israel's latest onslaught.
07 MARCH, 2025 • By Sabah HaiderPower has thousands of faces in thousands of postures. When you cut off one of its heads somewhere, many others shall take shape elsewhere.
07 MARCH, 2025 • By Iskandar AbdallaA new exhibition unravels the entangled histories and cultures of Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Western Europe through textiles.
07 MARCH, 2025 • By Jelena SofronijevicWhat do we choose to remember, and what do we choose to forget? A special monthly issue devoted to the genre of memoir...
07 FEBRUARY, 2025 • By TMRFrancisco Letelier connects the devastation of fire and climate change with the decimation of Gaza and other disasters.
07 FEBRUARY, 2025 • By Francisco LetelierHistory writing opens the door for the writers and their readers to see the Persian Gulf as a connecting point rather than a delimited void.
07 FEBRUARY, 2025 • By Todd ReiszMalu Halasa reviews a memoir of Palestine of both emotional and geographic proportions.
07 FEBRUARY, 2025 • By Malu HalasaAfter 13 years away, writer Odai Al Zoubi returns to Syria following the Assad regime's collapse, aiming to reconnect with a lost time.
07 FEBRUARY, 2025 • By Odai Al Zoubi, Rana AsfourA woman invited to a wedding wants to leave her house and return, but only if she can be certain of the return.
07 FEBRUARY, 2025 • By Dia BarghoutiBaxtyar Hamasur has dedicated his life to stories, even wearing a pair of story glasses. “I see everything as a story,” he says.
07 FEBRUARY, 2025 • By Baxtyar Hamasur, Jiyar Homer, Hannah Fox