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Rowayat Publishing House
In 2012, Rowayat روايات launched as a literary journal platforming the hybrid writer, focusing on Egyptian and Arab/SWANA writers. Our publications...
Nora Lester Murad
Nora Lester Murad is a writer, educator, and activist. She co-authored Rest in My Shade: A Poem About Roots with Danna Masad and edited
Rowayat
In 2012, Rowayat روايات launched as a literary journal platforming the hybrid writer, focusing on E...
Mauzoun
Mauzoun is a writing studio and publishing house that serves brands and authors worldwide. Our name aptly means “poetic balance” in Arabic, a meani...
Institute for Palestine Studies
The Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS) was established in Beirut in 1963 as an independent non-profit research institution, unaffiliated with an...
Youssef Rakha
Youssef Rakha is an Egyptian writer who works in both Arabic and English. He lives with his family in Cairo.
pascale ghazaly
Feminist visual artist and author with a MA in painting from the Lebanese University - Fine Arts Institute II. ghazaly is interested in developing ...
Robert Beshara
Robert K. Beshara is the author of Decolonial Psychoanalysis: Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies (Routledge, 2019) as well as...
Shahd Alshammari
Abed Alrahman Shabaneh
writer and art curator who aims to investigate the dynamic nature of society through arts and literature. Shabaneh studied Architecture at Birzeit ...
ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly
ArabLit, ArabLit Quarterly, and ALQ Books are a translator-centered collective that produces a website, quarterly magazine...
Mangal Media
Who are we?
Mangal Media is an Istanbul-Based online platform founded in 2016. We have since developed into a micro-press in...
Mostafa Minawi
Mostafa Minawi was born in Beirut to Palestinian parents. He immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of 15. His first book "The Ottoman Scr...
Lara Atallah
Lara Atallah is a New York-based artist and writer. Her practice is informed by her interest in the political nature of landscape, and the power it...
Saleem Haddad
Mira Mattar
Mira Mattar writes fiction and poetry. Her novel, Yes, I Am A Destroyer was published in 2020 by Ma Bibliothèque and her chapboo...
Rusted Radishes
Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal is happy to be in its 10th year of circulation! Over the years, ...
Rowayat Publishing House
In 2012, Rowayat روايات launched as a literary journal platforming the hybrid writer, focusing on Egyptian and Arab/SWANA writers. Our publications...
Nora Lester Murad
Nora Lester Murad is a writer, educator, and activist. She co-authored Rest in My Shade: A Poem About Roots with Danna Masad and edited
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