Celebrating the 19th Rencontre des Arts du Monde Arabe, Festival Arabesques will be held from September 10 to 22, 2024, in Montpellier.
30 AUGUST 2024 • By Laëtitia SoulaA Gaza-based writer captures the intense and harrowing experiences of individuals enduring the brutal realities of genocide.
30 AUGUST 2024 • By Sama Hassan, Rana AsfourArt, activism, archaeology, and archiving are crucial for rebuilding and healing cities by combining the past and present.
23 AUGUST 2024 • By Arie Amaya-AkkermansWhen a mother loses her child she can become inconsolable, living a desolate life, as she works for his return.
23 AUGUST 2024 • By Eman QuotahThe essence of Palestinian resilience, survival, and resistance is rooted in dispossession, as noted by Dana El Saleh.
16 AUGUST 2024 • By Dana El SalehIn this excerpt from Badar Salem's "Deserted as a Crowded Room," Majdal falls in love with a West Bank resistance fighter who winds up in solitary confinement.
16 AUGUST 2024 • By Badar SalemTo celebrate the forthcoming publication of Selim Temo's "Nightlands," we present an introductory essay and two poems from the Pinsapo Press edition.
09 AUGUST 2024 • By Zêdan XelefCory Oldweiler reviews the debut story collection by Farhad Pirbal, one of Kurdistan's iconic writers, now out from Deep Vellum.
09 AUGUST 2024 • By Cory OldweilerAlex Tan reviews a sci-fi anthology set in Egypt where all the writers aim to uplift the country from its post-revolutionary gloom.
02 AUGUST 2024 • By Alex TanSophie Kazan reviews a new book on the late Nabil Kanso, the Lebanese pacifist artist whose work depicted the horrors of war.
02 AUGUST 2024 • By Sophie Kazan MakhloufThe Bīylmawn festival has recently made a comeback but not everyone is pleased with the highly stylized and artistically reimagined carnival.
12 JULY 2024 • By Brahim El GuabliThe meta-narrative in Frank Herbert's Dune trilogy foresees the modern disaster of never-ending colonialism and a planet destroyed by oil.
05 JULY 2024 • By Ahmed Naji