Author: Tom Haviv

I. How doesa story break? Not by taking it apart(or dismantling it) but by  telling andretelling and retelling.  The story is abow It is ...

Para moabet no se kere kandil. (Moabet continues into the darkness.)1 Moabet (מואביט) is a Ladino (or Judeo-Spanish or Judezmo) ...

The Porcupine Prince is a surreal fable about the magic of friendship and the joy of connection.

A meditation on world invention and collapse, A Flag of No Nation traces the stories of Turkish Jews in the twentieth century, blind colonists in a white ocean, and performers enacting new rituals around a nationless flag.

A story about two brilliant girls named Phyla and Lyla who live in a town where everyone’s hair is braided together. Their stories are interwoven: each story starts at one side of the book, and both stories meet at the book’s center page.

May Ayin’s tent be a circus of liberation: a home for those unmoored from master narratives, a home for those who find, in the unraveling of our inherited paradigms, the very possibility of freedom.

We must occasionally find pleasure in our folly, or we cannot continue to find pleasure in our wisdom.  —Friedrich Nietzsche1 ...

Moonship Dispatch 7 Excerpts from the BARA Manifesto II. A long time ago, we set out to create something. In ...

Origin Complex Fire 5778 I dreamed as though the past was threaded through the future. I returned to find my ...

How did the rupture between Arab and Jewish worlds come to affect us collectively and individually?

As the song continues, it opens up, revealing contradictory layers underneath.

Msika’s bold nonconformity and tragic fate resonated deeply with her contemporaries, and fascinate me now.

When I think of Zohra Elfassia’s “Abiadi Ana,” I think of my paternal grandmother.

Al-Ala, the music of al-Andalus, has always been present in my family. It was a sort of familiar hum in our lives and rituals.

While preparing our own interpretations of these divas’ songs, we tried to creatively reconstruct a relationship to identity and history that was expansive and intersectional.