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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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
Dhifi, an artist who embraces imperfection and chance, talks about his latest concept, an inverted Mediterranean.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Naima Morelli
Mount Athos and a scrolling screen collapse into a shifting sea of image and memory.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Xloi Karnezi
Each book listed explores the Mediterranean in its own way; sometimes it commands center stage, at others, it lingers in the background.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Rana Asfour
A daughter recalls her father’s near-loss in a river, following the water outward into what the Mediterranean remembers.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Gabriela Mitrushi
A writer ponders the accelerating demise of the world's oldest inhabited seas.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Iason Athanasiadis
Noor Obeid's memories make up her artist archive as she illustrates life in Lebanon, past and present.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Noor Obeid
A short documentary that follows the inspirational and extraordinary life of Tunisian blogger and activist Lina Ben Mhenni.
01 MAY, 2026 • By Amie Williams
Mother tongues, endlessly chimeric, endlessly beguiling, can become both dangerous baggage and precious commodity.
06 MARCH, 2026 • By Lara Vergnaud
