Islamic visual traditions have long made space for realities beyond direct perception, and these artists work in calligraphy, installation, and speculative image-making to carry them forward.

I remember precisely where I was on March 13, 1996. I was 10, in Primary 6 and in a creative writing class with our enthusiastic class teacher, and head teacher of our small school in rural Scotland.

“Paradiso 17,” by Hannah Lillith Assadi, considers the toll of displacement through the tale of a Palestinian émigré. By Zain Khalid “I have written six books and counting just because I was very ...