Palestinian embroidery is dynamic, and artists, designers, and makers are constantly finding new ways to innovate and reinterpret it.
22 AUGUST 2025 • By Joanna Barakat
How do you practice self-acceptance the next time your mother admonishes you over a cookie or your body in general?
22 AUGUST 2025 • By Souseh
Arabic, France’s second-most spoken language, was featured at this year’s Avignon Festival, but is Arabic still the outsider's tongue?
15 AUGUST 2025 • By Georgina Van Welie
Shady Lewis' new novel skewers British bureaucracy while exploring the immigrant experience with black humor and surreal situations.
15 AUGUST 2025 • By Valeria Berghinz
The long history of Egyptian women's activism created the intellectual and political background for revolution.
08 AUGUST 2025 • By Jasmin Attia
A novel that explores taboo subjects with exceptional craftsmanship, while reconstructing the “self” from pain and fragmented identities.
08 AUGUST 2025 • By Ahmed Naji
A look at Ziad Rahbani's life and legacy, and the man who first introduced him to the jazz sound that transformed Lebanon's musical landscape.
08 AUGUST 2025 • By Diran Mardirian
A conversation with Mohammad Kassem, co-curator of the Kuwait Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.
01 AUGUST 2025 • By Georgina Van Welie
A writer in Gaza reports on the consequences of Israel's blocking humanitarian aid and medicines from entering the besieged territory.
01 AUGUST 2025 • By Asem Al Jerjawi
As planet temperatures rise, architects in the Middle East eschew Western fixes and revitalize local solutions.
01 AUGUST 2025 • By Iason Athanasiadis
A writer in Tehran surveys the wreckage after 12 days of missiles, bombs and rhetoric flying between Israel and Iran.
27 JUNE 2025 • By Amir
Defying a pervasive climate of self-censorship in Turkey, Kurdish artist Ateş Alpar grapples with cultural assimilation, historical erasure and methods of state control.
27 JUNE 2025 • By Jennifer Hattam
