Deepak Unnikrishnan’s debut novel Temporary People chronicles stories of life-worlds shaped by change, temporality and migration, well familiar to the people of today’s Gulf cities.

Love, grief, life and death – all of these suddenly take on a whole new meaning when the place you call home is drawn into conflict and violence. In Libyan poet Nora M. Barghati’s world, the dark is turned into an act of cultural revival.

From lettuce, apricots and local bear to handicraft, music and contemporary art, Palestine has a festival scene that celebrates life’s more beautiful sides on many occasions throughout the year.

It was on January 25, 2011, that a larger-than-ever protest took over Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Here, 5 years later, are the best Egyptian literary works about it.

Speaking to the founders of Aghvor Parer, a blog and Facebook page dedicated to the everything about the Armenian language, specifically the Western Armenian dialect spoken in Istanbul, the Near East and other parts of the diaspora.

Written by Lilah Khoja, this is the sixth and last of our fictional short stories. In it, Lilah imagines several imaginary scenes in a Damascene subway.

الكاتبة ليلى خوجة كتبت قصة خيالية عن مترو في مدينتها دمشق والركاب والمسافرون الذين نتعرف بهم في المترو.

Ecrit par la Libanaise Diala Gemayel, voici le cinquième texte de fiction que nous publions. Les mots peuvent-ils réveiller les consciences?

I remember clearly the moment we stood facing each other — I, wondering if he was Iranian, and he, probably thinking that I was Iraqi.

One of six fictional short stories, published as part of our inaugural fiction series, that share an interest in the ‘fate’ of the Middle East.