Interviews
What Remains of Egypt’s January Revolution? An Interview with Hossam el-Hamalawy
The fifteenth anniversary of Egypt’s January 25 Revolution arrives at an ambiguous historical moment. It is a time marked more by exhaustion than nostalgia, weighed down not only by the question “What happened?” but also “What remains?”Fifteen years on, we...
Pluralism, Memory, and Citizenship in a New Syria: An Interview with Writer Haitham Hussein
In a country exhausted by decades of denial, exclusionary identity politics, and a deep-seated mutual fear that has become part of daily consciousness, words themselves become a moral act. Speaking out breaks the silence, creates space for difference, and affirms...
“Political Bullying Has Weakened International Law”: An interview with Novelist Hisham Matar
A man who writes literature with deep optimism and an unwavering faith in humanity and love rooted in trust in human exchange and in the simple Arabic maxim: “I am of you and to you.” He believes that most people...
Palestinian Lands as a Dump for Israeli Waste… An Interview with Dr. “Aql Abu Qura”
In the heart of occupied Jerusalem, the Qalandia area is facing an unprecedented environmental and humanitarian challenge following the Israeli occupation authorities’ announcement of a plan to establish a waste landfill and a waste‑to‑energy plant serving the Israeli Electricity Company...
“No Banned Books in the New Syria”: An Interview with Ahmad Jassem Al-Hussein, the Head of the Arab Writers Union
At a historical moment when the contours of a new Syria are beginning to take shape and as the country reexamines its cultural and intellectual roles after years of stagnation and political subjugation the question of the relevance and role...
Experts Explain: How Arson Became a Tool of Systematic Displacement
With every new incident in which settlers set fire to a Palestinian home, the haunting memory of the 2015 arson attack that killed the Dawabsheh family in the village of Duma, near Nablus, resurfaces. As settler violence escalates across the...
Between Literature, Power, Censorship, An interview with Ashraf El-Ashmawi
A certain beauty lies in bringing together two worlds that appear contradictory; rigidity and art, forms and emotions, firmness and humanity, decisiveness and relativity law and literature as embodied by the Egyptian writer and counselor Ashraf El-Ashmawy. El-Ashmawi has been...
Palestinian Bedouins Stand as a Barrier to Settlement Expansion: An Interview with Hassan Mleihat
As Israeli policies aimed at emptying Bedouin communities of their inhabitants intensify, the Bedouin file has emerged as one of the most urgent humanitarian and political issues today one whose implications extend far beyond daily assaults to encompass projects of...
How Do We See Our Cities in Zafón’s Novels? A Conversation with Translator Muauia Abdulmagid
Literary translation is far more than the transfer of words from one language to another. It is a rigorous journey through meaning, memory, and style. When a literary text crosses linguistic boundaries, it brings with it a dense human experience...
“Israel’s Moment of Reckoning Will Come from Within Israeli Society and the Jewish Community” – An Interview with Daniel Zoughbie
Read the interview in ArabicSince the arrival of the first American ships on the shores of the Levant in the 19th century bringing with them missionaries and Protestant schools in Beirut, Sidon, and Jaffa, eventually reaching Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Damascus...
