The body is the vessel of the soul and thought, and the woman’s body is the secret of life. The artist, Zaineb Shaban, celebrated this concept through 28 artworks in her seventh solo exhibition, entitled “Body and Soul”, held in...
Lady: I thought when I saw you waiting, wearing your silence, you are tired. Your eyes were talking, and yes, you hid, I swear, you hid something. Would you please tell me: what is occupying you? Be brave, do not be afraid I am for you, you are par...
for Syria and Ukraine I was dreaming its surface with my thumb Flying along carving a small wake, A river and a fish. That dream—but when I woke Heard the noisy street. What am I doing, I thought? Liv...
Since last year I did not write poetry. I won’t, no need. Thank you, God. Huge numbers are here and there. I divorced fake poetry and immigrated away to a quiet bay that knows nothing but the truth. Kids in my village understand my poems. My poem...
1942–2008 Photo by Gil Cohen Magen-Pool/Getty Images. Palestinian Mahmoud Darwish was born in al-Birwa in Galilee, a village that was occupied and later razed by the Israeli army. Because they had missed the official Israeli...
(Translated from Arabic by the author with Scott Minar) Our relationship with the brass city was not good enough. Probably because they have secrets we don’t know. When I approached their closed gates with a friend, they spotted us with a beam o...
His street-scene artwork, he says, is an attempt to convey “all that is no longer there; families, memories”. Syrian sculptor Khaled Dawwa works on a clay sculpture depicting a street in Syria destroyed by the war, in Vanves, ...
Many more Arab movies are made today than before and of a quality rarely seen in cinema history. Egyptian actress Menna Shalabi poses on the red carpet during the closing session of the 5th Gouna Film Festival in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of...
“What Strange Paradise,” published by McClelland & Stewart, is a novel about two children caught in the global refugee crisis. Tuesday 09/11/2021 Omar El Akkad, winner of the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize, celebrates during the “28th...
Yes, he is four, and yes, he is one of 5000 under five, every single month so far, dying of hunger in a small nation only*. He cries if he can, not for toys, or a candy bar, or a scoop of ice cream. His thoughts are not of these, but for a cup...
معكم هو مشروع تطوعي مستقل ، بحاجة إلى مساعدتكم ودعمكم لاجل استمراره ، فبدعمه سنوياً بمبلغ 10 دولارات أو اكثر حسب الامكانية نضمن استمراره. فالقاعدة الأساسية لادامة عملنا التطوعي ولضمان استقلاليته سياسياً هي استقلاله مادياً. بدعمكم المالي تقدمون مساهمة مهمة بتقوية قاعدتنا واستمرارنا على رفض استلام أي أنواع من الدعم من أي نظام أو مؤسسة. يمكنكم التبرع مباشرة بواسطة الكريدت كارد او عبر الباي بال.
