In this spell-binding tale, a Pakistani storyteller captivates a group of wide-eyed tourists with a nesting doll of interlocked stories about a trickster and a hidden city ruled by the Queen of Red Mi...

Award-winning Danish Afghan journalist and filmmaker Nagieb Khaja’s most recent documentary, Winning Heart and Minds, is an investigation into what went wrong in the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. In th...

Articles of Horror reviews the newest collection of stories from today's best horror voices in +Horror Library+. Volume 9.

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404 Media and The Intercept talk about how private companies empower government surveillance, and how AI is used in warfare.

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“In Palestine, some 87,000 students have suffered a near total disruption of their studies for the duration of the genocide, and more than 1200 have been killed. Upwards of 200 academic staff have…

“Israeli military aircraft flew low over the Lebanese villages of Ras Naqoura and Aita al-Shaab, spraying agricultural fields with a fine mist... Within days, the green of fields, orchards, and olive…

Across the most popular Hollywood productions on Iran, Iranians have appeared as threats, mobs, fanatics, and monsters. However, the new wave of Israeli-made, US-distributed shows are turning Iran its...

A new generation of Afghans wants to move on from the animosities of the past, but Western policies make that difficult.

Saadat Hasan Manto spins a tale of a "lunatic exchange" between the governments of Pakistan and India in the period following Partition.

Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide food & water...

"To what extent might the Booker—and venues like it in Europe and the US—be drawn for self-serving reasons to fiction like Kiran Desai’s?"

Rida Altaf (she/her) is a writer based in Karachi, Pakistan, and a recently graduated Fulbright scholar with a master’s degree in comparative literature. She is very much interested in all kinds of we...

For centuries, a steady stream of Afghan students have gone to the great Shia Islamic seminaries of Iran and Iraq in search of religious learning. Few rose as high as Mohammad Ishaq Fayyaz, who died i...

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Backed by Moroccan state subsidies, Christopher Nolan’s decision to film The Odyssey in occupied Western Sahara is the latest and highest-profile chapter in a five-decade campaign to normalize colonia...

Five writers trace the networks of value that emerge through writing and solidarity, offering visions beyond complicity.

US strikes have devastated ports, fishing communities and crucial infrastructure, making civilian life increasingly difficult

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Reporting from a car in Baghdad.

With his debut novel, Mahmud El Sayed arrives as a bold new voice in Arabfuturism.

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Amnesty International's investigation concludes that Pakistan's airstrike on the Omid drug rehabilitation center in Kabul, which killed at least 269 civilians, lacked evidence of a military target and...

Amnesty International finds no evidence to support Pakistan military's claim that site was a legitimate military target

Since the crash following the collapse of the Republic in August 2021, Afghanistan’s economy has witnessed a modest recovery, although many households have not. In a new longitudinal study, AAN has fo...

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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As TV news coverage of Palestine declines, reading Palestinian books has become more important than ever

The first known prison memoir written by a woman in the Middle East records the cruelty and aspirations of a dying cosmopolitan world

Dragon fire on white bodies is sad. Dragon fire on not-Muslim bodies is cheered on the screen. We ache when the scimitar prows of not-Muslim ships cleave through a white human captain’s ship. But b…