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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In Ottoman-era Istanbul, a Kurdish family in exile witnesses the resurrection of a child that will shape their lives for generations.
03 JULY, 2026 • By Mehmed Uzun, Jeannette Okur, Tahirhan Aydin
Through pomegranates, card games, motherhood, and community, a Kurdish American writer reflects on the rituals that sustain belonging.
03 JULY, 2026 • By Holly Mason Badra
Through close readings of Kurdish poets, a writer examines silence as a poetics of survival, love, refusal, and belonging.
03 JULY, 2026 • By Hajjar Baban
A translator describes her process of bringing a poet whose work is colored by tragedy, personal and collective, into English.
03 JULY, 2026 • By Shene Mohammed, Rafiq Sabir
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
