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Collective artwork by Eman Osama
Adam and Eve without an Apple In her PhD thesis, Eman tackles one of the most familiar yet…
Cairo Divided: A Megacity Turns Itself Inside Out
Award-winning journalist Jack Shenker and photographer Jason Larkin teamed up for two years to produce this unique text…
Re-Envisioning Fiction
“A useful exercise is to think of an image, a thought, a small moment, or a place.” Of…
I Don’t Love This City
The sky was like an enormous table, spread with the fruit of the great god Ra: the reddest…
My Beloved Dog, My Old Dog
“That little freak would pierce my ears with his voice.” Translated by Iman Mersal and Tarek Sherif The…
The Drowned, A Slaughtered Chicken a Few Minutes Before Death, Quiet and Numerous, Did You Know?
Did You Know? The corners That people could have hid in Disappeared After God created the Earth A…
By Ear
“Just imagine it’s a camera and point it towards everything you see or hear. Be gentle.” Translated by…
She Told Me
“The mysterious queen was wrapped in myths woven by her enemies.” The goddess, the mother goddess, the productive…
Turning the Pages of No Knives in This City’s Kitchens
An Interview with award-winning Syrian writer Khaled Khalifa Interview by Alaa Elbannan with photography by Nikolay Merchev Profound,…
An Excerpt From Robin Yassin-Kassab’s Upcoming Novel
“Something unsettled in the atmosphere pronounces a moment arriving.” An Excerpt from the Syrian Revolution novel She paces…