August 4, 2026
30 More SWANA Books to Read in 2026
by Samia Saliba
2026 continues to be an exciting year for SWANA literature, with many stunning debuts, new releases and translations from longtime favorites, and experiments in new genres.
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June 26, 2026
The No-State Solution: Histories and Realities
If a call for a “no-state solution” is theoretically valid anywhere, the current situation in Palestine provides us with empirical verification that humanity benefits more from the absence of the state than from its existence.
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June 19, 2026
I Am Not Your Translator
by Fady Joudah
Without the untranslatable the translatable is nonviable. The untranslatable, too, is a biologic imperative. At the gene level, an intron is a noncoding sequence that indicates where the translatable sequence is. And the untranslatable is a cosmic imperative as well. The Arabic dark matter with which English light seems unwilling to interact.
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