Interviews
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...
How Gaza’s Health Sector Is Facing Its Most Dire Crisis Since the Outbreak of War
In the heart of an expanding humanitarian catastrophe, Gaza finds itself grappling with one of the most complex and dangerous health crises since the war began—a crisis that strikes at the very core of its medical system, threatening its most...
Preserving Truth: An Interview with Abdullah Maksour
In a time when narratives clash and truth erodes between noise and oblivion, the literary voice that can grasp the essence of tragedy becomes more necessity than luxury. Among these voices is Syrian novelist and journalist Abdullah Maksour, the author...
Interview with Salah Khawaja: Inside Israel’s Expanding Settlement and Annexation Plan
Amid the rapid expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and the daily land seizures carried out by Israeli occupation authorities, questions are once again being raised about the fate of Palestinian land and the prospects for...
Wanderer of the Gray Zones: A Conversation with Asaad Taha
From his earliest steps in the world of journalism and media, Asaad Taha was never chasing a captivating image to impress the audience. Instead, he was seeking meaning something that could pierce through the darkness. He charted paths to the...
The State Has Failed to Understand Morocco’s Gen‑Z… An Interview with Human Rights Advocate Khalid al‑Bakari
In the midst of the protest wave that Morocco has witnessed in recent weeks a movement which began in virtual digital spaces before spilling into the streets observers find themselves facing an unprecedented youth phenomenon both in form and substance....
