“My book ‘The Return’ reacquainted me with my country and my people after 33 years of exile. But it also reacquainted me with myself.” . Pulitzer Prize winner Hisham Matar talks to @Omid_M about Libya, friendship and “the potential of our humanity.”

"Amid the horrors of Israel’s extermination campaign in Gaza, it is easy to overlook the West Bank’s escalating violence and dispossession," says Tom Pollitt, reviewing @louistheroux's "The Settlers". "But de facto Israeli annexation is rapidly advancing."

"We don't support any military actions against Syria, but what are we supposed to do? If you were here [as] a civilian, unarmed and someone [was] coming to kill you, I think you’d take help from the devil." @subhash_anagha reports on Sweida, southern Syria.

"She plunges headlong into the fissures of contemporary womanhood stretched across the blazing, glittering mirage of the Arabian Peninsula," writes @Ruchiragupta, in a review of @MoOgrodnik's new novel "Gulf".

RT @DAWNmenaorg: @FranceskAlbs @DAWN_Journal In this 2024 @DAWN_Journal interview, Francesca Albanese called Israel’s actions in Gaza genoc….

RT @DAWNmenaorg: “In genocide, it’s difficult to prove intent. But…when the intent is so conspicuous, so ostentatious as it is in this war,….

RT @DAWNmenaorg: "Doing independent media work in such an environment feels harder than laboring in a quarry.”. Read @DAWN_Journal's lates….

"If the leaders in Washington and Tel Aviv believe that bombs can purchase obedience, they have misread the grammar of history. Violence may cow a people for a season, but it does not give shape to order," writes @YahiaLababidi, after the Israel-Iran war.

"Stifling media freedom and repressing any dissent in both the north and south has become a hallmark of Yemen’s prolonged war—with no end in sight.". A Yemeni reporter documents increasing restrictions on press freedom country-wide, for Democracy in Exile.

RT @DAWNmenaorg: "The silence is not reassuring.". @YahiaLababidi assesses the results of the 12-day war in @DAWN_Journal, writing that "Wh….

“To be a student in Gaza is to study under siege, to dream beneath drones and to write amid ruins… Each sentence I write is an act of defiance. I study not just for myself, but to assert that our voices will not be erased," @GhadaRozzi writes from Gaza.

"In rushing to destroy, the U.S., Israel and Iran have deafened themselves to their own unraveling. The region does not pause to heal. It mutters under its breath, plotting revival, revenge and resistance," writes @YahiaLababidi in Democracy in Exile.

RT @DAWNmenaorg: "The novel is not about victimhood. It is a novel about women becoming—sometimes through pain, sometimes through vengeanc….

"That's not safety. That’s a trap.". Writing from the Gaza Strip for Democracy in Exile, Yahya al-Masri shares what he's hearing from Gazans about ongoing ceasefire negotiations and the Israeli government's so-called "humanitarian city" plan.

"Ogrodnik delivers not only a harrowing account of contemporary womanhood but a new model for how novels might reckon with the global crises of labor, migration and female agency." @Ruchiragupta reviews @MoOgrodnik's new novel "Gulf" for Democracy in Exile.

RT @DAWNmenaorg: “We are learning, not despite the impossible, but because we reject the impossible," @GhadaRozzi writes from Gaza for @DAW….

"In Gaza, resistance is not always armed. Sometimes, it is simply a pen that refuses to be put down," Ghada al-Rozzi writes from Gaza for Democracy in Exile. "If Palestinians are not allowed to dream, to read or to write, then how can we ever rebuild?"

"Giulio`s death made clear that returning to Cairo carried the terrifying risk of prison, a horrendous death or both. I chose not to return and have not done so to this day," writes @MagedMandour, reviewing his now-decade of exile from Egypt.

RT @DAWNmenaorg: “The government starts with people it assumes no one will defend. But it never ends there. Silence is complicity. It's inc….