A post-graduation party in Beirut, held within striking distance of displaced citizens, reflects a broader discourse — and malaise.
12 JUNE 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
Lewis, fresh off his win of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, reflects on borders, bureaucracy, and more.
12 JUNE 2026 • By Abdelrahman ElGendy
In her latest creation, Malaka Gharib seeks the circle in the pattern when she takes her child on his first trip to Egypt.
12 JUNE 2026 • By Malaka Gharib
Zoukak embodied a rarity in the Lebanese theatre world, running ten years longer than its intrepid founders expected.
5 JUNE 2026 • By Amelia Izmanki
Aida Zilelian’s first chapbook traces the survival of a people, but also reminds the reader of other genocides, past and present.
5 JUNE 2026 • By Sean Casey
Lebanon is a quiet, at times ominous, presence in A Sad and Beautiful World, an unexpected and moving romance.
5 JUNE 2026 • By Alex Demyanenko
The Mediterranean, generative yet unstable, is a site of passage and border, a space of paradise and ruin.
By Saleem Haddad
A daughter recalls her father’s near-loss in a river, following the water outward into what the Mediterranean remembers.
By Gabriela Mitrushi
Dhifi, an artist who embraces imperfection and chance, talks about his latest concept, an inverted Mediterranean.
By Naima Morelli
A Palestinian writer dissects the exquisite loneliness of losing one's mother tongue.
6 MARCH 2026 • By Majd Aburrub
A simple debate over a spoon opens a space in which a group of Syrian migrants reclaim an identity on the brink of erasure.
6 MARCH 2026 • By Zeinab Ghassan Khaddour
The civilizational supremacy of the West is under threat, insisted U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a speech in Munich.
3 APRIL 2026 • By Ayça Çubukçu
A writer imagines Iran one year in the future, after the bombs have stopped falling, and the resulting political and social landscape.
3 APRIL 2026 • By Shahram Khosravi
Three new pieces of SWANA literature, criticism and art every Friday-direct.
