An Archive of Absences
In this personal essay, Susanne Niemann considers her family history and roots in Germany, and the need to document memory
A Note from the Editor: Issue 39
Down and Out in the UAE Badlands
Film camera in tow, Benjamin Kirby heads to Al Dhaid in Dubai, where he meets an enigmatic TikTok-famous travel agent and muses on the urban landscape in this new essay
A Knotty Problem: Politics of My Hair
When cutting your hair is a radical act – Lubnah Ansari unpacks the social paradigms surrounding the politics of female hair in the South Asian context
Colors Shrine
تتعمق سيما آل عبد الحي في عملها “ضريح الألوان” عن القصة البشرية، العناصر الأربع: التراب والهواء والنار والماء و الاختلافات والتناقضات بينهم
Where were you?
Fiction editor Thirangie Jayatilake’s poem teems with a staccato rage at our current global state. With an accompanying image by Catalina Aranguren