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Dear Souseh: I Can’t Follow a Loved One Down the Rabbit Hole

Souseh answers a letter from a reader wondering how to handle her younger sister, who is enamored of conspiracy theories.

23 MAY 2025 • By Souseh

Arrested and Rearrested: Palestinian Women in the West Bank

Since October 7, Palestinian women in the West Bank have experienced increasing intimidation, imprisonment and violence.

16 MAY 2025 • By Lynzy Billing

Algerian-French Author Kamel Daoud on the Defensive

Embattled Algerian-French author Kamel Daoud won France’s most prestigious literary prize for a story he is accused of stealing.

16 MAY 2025 • By Lara Vergnaud

Contretemps, a Bold Film on Lebanon’s Crises

Filmmaker Ghassan Salhab presents an immersive study of Lebanese youth, the silent isolation of mortality, and resistance.

16 MAY 2025 • By Jim Quilty

Editors’ 2025 Palestinian Lit List

May 15, 2025 is the 77th commemoration of the Nakba, the day in 1948 that Palestinians suffered their worst catastrophe up to that time.

15 MAY 2025 • By TMR

A World in Crisis: Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations 2025

This anthology, while celebrating last year's best literary translations, aims to highlight writing from and about a world in crisis.

09 MAY 2025 • By Lara Vergnaud

Poet Mosab Abu Toha Wins Pulitzer Prize for Essays on Gaza

Poet and essayist Mosab Abu Toha who grew up in Gaza under the bombs has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.

09 MAY 2025 • By Jordan Elgrably

Djinns Unveils Silence in the Home

Djinns emerge in a fractured home in Istanbul, reflecting the intercultural and intergenerational tensions in Fatma Aydemir’s family saga.

09 MAY 2025 • By Elena Pare

The Pen and the Sword—Censorship Threatens Us All

Anna Badkhen argues that the moral bankruptcy of American intellectuals…will only kick us down the hole deeper, faster.

02 MAY 2025 • By Anna Badkhen

Germany’s Most Rightwing Parliament Since WWII—Liberals Panic, Immigrants Roll Their Eyes

Laila Abdalla, a young Egyptian journalist transplanted to Germany, sizes up the rightward drift of the country.

25 APRIL 2025 • By Laila Abdalla

Hassan Blasim’s Sololand features Three Novellas on Iraq

Hassan Blasim’s work is not imitation. His is a voice forged in exile, and steeped in the paradoxes of displacement.

25 APRIL 2025 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak

May World Picks from the Editors

Film and writers’ festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures, new books, art residencies, and writing workshops.

25 APRIL 2025 • By TMR
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