Articles

"It slipped further, time, when I admitted great disappointment, and gave myself over to hatred... Time was slipping away... but I was faster— I had already fled, before fleeing I severed my own peace, fed it to the wind, hoping some other city might catch a fever, when it notices my wounds"

"Two poems from a young poet and writer from Gaza: "And so I wear this coat sewn out of place and time,  a silent pact, both prison and sublime.""

"I survived; I know this to be a fact. Still, there are moments when survival feels too simple a word for the distance between the life I was certain would end and the one I suddenly found myself continuing. Sometimes I cannot tell whether I came close to death and lived, or whether some part of me crossed into it and was sent back."

"Why do Palestinians keep writing? Why do we keep documenting, exposing, speaking, when we know it may not lead to results, at least not in the near future? Is it belief that freedom will someday come? Or the faith that truth should never be hidden? Belief in humanity beyond governments?"

"Palestinian-Ukrainian peace activist and author Zoya Miari shares her experience attending the Frankfurt Book Fair 2025 and how it reminded her of the impact we can have on the world around us."

"I cannot recall the precise moment when writing first began — perhaps because it was not something I learned, but something I was born with. I did not study how to summon inspiration, nor did I master its functional tools in the early days. Those came later, with the weight of years: characters, climax, internal monologues."