Freedom Fields
by Farrah Fray,
The film—Naziha Arebi’s directorial debut—is the first ever feature length film to come out of Libya by a Libyan, let alone by a woman.
Lipstick vs. The Ayatollah
by Monica Zandi,
“I didn’t know Iranian women looked like that.”
Atopia: The Mind in Winter
by Darius Rejali,
It’s an uncertain day, the kind where you wonder, did I stay in this city a little too long?
Namedropping
by Samuel Tafreshi,
What had been its own ‘center’ of intellectual and cultural production became an overlapping periphery beholden to the interests of emerging ‘centers’ in the region.
The Valleys of Baltistan
by Amara Waseem,
I pressed my lips to the petals I plucked from the rose that fell through my window.
Urban Decay
by Sheyda Allahverdiyeva,
Harmonic coexistence “of Azerbaijani with the Jewish, Armenian, Russian, and Tatar colleagues.”
Maps of Velvet
by Suzana Poghosyan,
In this interview, Suzana Poghosyan and Araz Farra discuss their creative process, relationships to home, and diaspora privilege.
My Blossomed Potted Plant
by Jennifer Saparzadeh,
“My blossomed potted plant/ My moonlit balcony / From you I am alone / Fish out of its home.”
Going Home
by Leena Aboutaleb,
de / construct, literature into spaces, scrawled on finger/bones, between guest beds, tore through across, bloodstained streets
Hypothetical Body Equation (with Cats)
by Nour Kamel,
I went and made you, because everything where I was was too much.
What Happens Now?
by Sama Shahrouri,
Man-made interiors are inhabited by motionless animals.
Foreign Landscapes
by Tamer El Aswad,
“Should one find the light, or should one experience darkness in order to find truth?”
Memoirs Through Pokua’s Window
by Gideon Appah,
An archive of communal life in Accra, Ghana.
The Sound Of
by Lizzy Vartanian Collier,
Exhibition analyses how sound constructs social identity and space.
