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 GouldArt Basel's grand debut in the SWANA region is more than a marketplace or mere branding; it is a catalyst for Qatar's cultural vision.
13 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Arie Amaya-AkkermansIn 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 GhandourIn this tragicomic debut novel, a queer Palestinian refugee prepares to come out during his extravagant birthday dinner party.
6 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Ziyad SaadiHasan Hadi delivers a remarkable neorealist fable about childhood, obedience, and survival under dictatorship.
6 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Alex DemyanenkoLena El-Malak’s Stolen Nation is a robust examination of a neglected aspect of the Palestinian “question": reparations.
6 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Selma DabbaghWhat 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 GouldPalestinian 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-AkkermansShira Wolfe's cinematic poetry reads like scenes from a movie, describing a period of her life spent in Belgrade...
1 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Shira WolfeIn "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 AgarauIn 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 GhandourIn "This Arab Life," Amal Ghandour looks at the absurdity of Trump's so-called "Board of Peace" for Gaza.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By Amal GhandourDanger 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 MUSTAFAHIn today's dissonant reality, many countries feel like they need protection from Israel.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By SHERYL ONOIsraeli settlement plans threaten a monastery, green spaces, and even a cemetery.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By A MOM FROM BETHLEHEMRaja Shehadeh offers a simple but impossible answer to this simple but impossible question: "And yet we must."
30 JANUARY 2026 • By RAJA SHEHADEHCoffee, gas, warmth — basic things to many, but in Gaza, they become rarities.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By ESRAA ABO QAMARA young writer reports that safe transportation remains dangerously scarce.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By MARIAM MUSHTAHA