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 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 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
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
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 work is not imitation. His is a voice forged in exile, and steeped in the paradoxes of displacement.
25 APRIL 2025 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
Film and writers’ festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures, new books, art residencies, and writing workshops.
25 APRIL 2025 • By TMR
In post-regime Syria, forgiveness is not resolution—it’s a quiet demand for justice in the language of art.
18 APRIL 2025 • By Robert Bociaga
A story of a self-estranged gay adolescent navigating his identity as an Armenian in Iran and later as an immigrant in America.
18 APRIL 2025 • By Sean Casey
The new Lebanese performance, "Four Walls and a Roof," uses trial testimony, humor, and Eisler-Brecht songs to address the rise of the right.
11 APRIL 2025 • By Malu Halasa
"Suspended Disbelief" interrogates the tension between belief and doubt in the folklore and collective psyche of the Mediterranean region.
11 APRIL 2025 • By Marta Mendes
An advice column that tackles personal questions inflected by our greater social, cultural, political, and historical contexts.
04 APRIL 2025 • By Lina Mounzer
