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The Ghost of My Grandfather
أعاتبُ طيفهُ إن لم يزرني لعل الطيف أوعى للعتابِ “I chide his specter if he doesn’t visit…
Green Country
The nightingale warbled in the trees. In October, the ancient eucalyptus trees were evergreen and ribbons of bark…
Laid Off
I reported to a place about ten miles from the main campus for two or three weeks of…
Holding a Shard with Tenderness
Review of I Can Imagine It For Us by Mai Serhan I had been waiting a long time…
Essay two: Excelling as Defiance: The Early Life of Doria Shafik
I began my journey into the life of Dr. Doria Shafik more than three years ago. Throughout these…
Where Ruin Becomes Form: A Poetics of Fragment and Survival
While reading Against Forgetting, Carolyn Forché’s anthology of twentieth-century poetry written in the shadow of war, repression, and…
Remembering the Egyptian Novelist Sonallah Ibrahim: “Taking a Scalpel to the Communist Dream”
When I first met Sonallah Ibrahim (August 3, 1937–August 13, 2025) in 2016—the Egyptian novelist with his shock…
Airing Skeletons: Rotem Rozental on Zionist Photography
Rotem Rozental, Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement. 260 Pages. 10 Color & 62 B/W Illustrations. March…
Fatma Racha Shehadeh: Diving into the World of Art
Before beginning this conversation, Alissar was drawn not only to Fatma’s work, but to the quiet affinities they…
Four Voices in Translation
He lives in Dubai, where the sun polishes glass until it becomes a thought. Towers lift their…