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The identity of Serge St. Jean is unknown. This poem was previously published in Collection Hounguénikon and later anthologized in Ayiti Cheri: Poésie Haïtienne (1800-2015).

Zeina Azzam is a Palestinian American poet, editor, and community activist. She volunteers for organizations that promote Palestinian rights and the civil rights of vulnerable communities in Alexandria, Virginia, where she is active with the group Grassroots Alexandria. She also serves as a mentor for We Are Not Numbers, a writing program for youth in Gaza. Zeina’s chapbook, Bayna Bayna, In-Between, is published by The Poetry Box. Her poems appear in Pleiades, Cordite Poetry Review, Mizna, Sukoon Magazine, Split This Rock, Passager, Barzakh: A Literary Magazine, Voice Male, and the edited volumes Tales from Six Feet Apart, Bettering American Poetry, Making Mirrors: Writing/Righting by and for Refugees, and Gaza Unsilenced, among others. Zeina holds an M.A. in Arabic literature from Georgetown University.

Celebrated wise man and poet from Chalco, Ayocuan Cuetzpaltzin was the son of Cuetzpaltzin, the chichimeca governor Cohuayocan. He was born in the second half of the fifteenth century and died near the beginning of the sixteenth.

“Through a sort of grating irony,” writes Charif Majdalani, Lebanon “remains a sort of model but in the negative sense of the term, because it concentrates in itself all the problems of the contemporary world.” Will it someday regain its role as a positive model?

This is In Damascus (في دمشق), a stunningly beautiful film by the Syrian filmmaker and motion graphic designer Waref Abu Quba.

Clementina Suárez (1902-1991) has been called the “matriarch of Honduran letters” and was well known during her lifetime as a writer, a supporter of the arts, and someone who defied contemporary cultural norms and expectations of womanhood.

Amid Israel's deluge of fire, seemingly redrawing the contours of a new Middle East, their absence might almost have gone unnoticed. Yet, it's a significant moment for the families of the...

Police detain anti-nuclear activists, prevent protests during run-up to the vote.

Written by “A Few Pariahs,” various Quechuan poets. Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira C.-V.

Fatena Al-Gharra was born in and educated in Gaza.

A history of discrimination and violence in Lebanon makes Syrian refugees especially vulnerable, but returning home is not a safe option.