Our reviewer examines the Arab melancholy at the heart of Saleem Haddad’s second novel.
20 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Layla AlAmmar
Many women and men long to raise children of their own, but is it primordial to be a biological parent?
20 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Lina Mounzer
A new anthology from Saqi Books explores LGBTQ+ Arabs and their families from ten points of view.
20 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Zein Murib
For Avi Shlaim and Gilbert Achcar, the genocide in Gaza is a turning point, one from which there is no return.
13 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould
Art Basel's debut in the SWANA region is more than a marketplace; it is a catalyst for Qatar's cultural vision.
13 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
In a world where justice and law reliably fail us, it might be literature that holds the better promise of redemption.
13 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
What could be more central to any discussion of peace and justice than Palestinian freedom and sovereignty in our lifetimes?
Palestinian writer Nasser Abu Srour, finally free after 32 years in Israeli prisons, speaks to interviewer Rebecca Ruth Gould.
30 January 2026 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould
Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum keeps returning to the same questions: How is space regulated, surveilled, and colonized? And what remains concealed?
30 January 2026 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Shira Wolfe's cinematic poetry reads like scenes from a movie, describing a period of her life spent in Belgrade...
1 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Shira Wolfe
In "The Years of Blood" a Nigerian poet grapples with the violence of a nation struggling to find peace amid frequent bloodshed.
1 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Adedayo Agarau
Many women and men long to raise children of their own, but is it primordial to be a biological parent?
20 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Lina Mounzer
In a world where justice and law reliably fail us, it might be literature that holds the better promise of redemption.
13 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
FictionDanger looms over this story, set in pre-Nakba Palestine, as a mother, distrustful of a foreigner's presence, tends to her son.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By SAHAR MUSTAFAH
EssayIn today's dissonant reality, many countries feel like they need protection from Israel.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By SHERYL ONO
Israeli settlement plans threaten a monastery, green spaces, and even a cemetery.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By A MOM FROM BETHLEHEM
EssayRaja Shehadeh offers a simple but impossible answer to this simple but impossible question: "And yet we must."
30 JANUARY 2026 • By RAJA SHEHADEH
EssayCoffee, gas, warmth — basic things to many, but in Gaza, they become rarities.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By ESRAA ABO QAMAR
EssayA young writer reports that safe transportation remains dangerously scarce.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By MARIAM MUSHTAHA
