Stories from the Middle East and North Africa, and the spaces in between.
Stuck in his Palestinian hometown of Jenin during lockdown, Mo’min Swaitat walked into an old...
Azzam Alwash remembers the marshlands of southern Iraq as a magical place, where he would...
In 2012, a Yazidi family fled to Sweden in the hope of a better...
A warning: This episode contains descriptions of sexual violence and assault. As Egyptian women celebrated...
A warning: This episode contains descriptions of sexual violence and assault. In the summer of...
In 1962 the library at the University of Algiers was burned to the ground, turning...
We’re holding off on releasing this week’s Kerning Cultures episode. Instead, we’re sharing resources on...
This week, we’re following the trail of an elusive camel herder called Hadj Ali (or,...
A family secret, hidden for decades by a grandfather in Iraq, gets uncovered by his...
During the Syrian war, a group of archeologists risk their lives to record the damage...