[3] Following the Palestine Liberation Organization's departure from Beirut in 1982 the magazine's headquarters moved to Nicosia, Cyprus, where it was printed until 1996.
[4][5] The associate editor of the magazine when it was headquartered in Nicosia was Salim Barakat, a Syrian writer.
[2] One of his prose poems was about the events occurred on 6 June 1982 when Israel invaded Lebanon and was featured in the magazine in 1986.
[9] Arab and Israeli writers contributed to the title in addition to international ones such as Russell Banks, J. M. Coetzee and José Saramago.
[5] The magazine featured short stories and essays written by the Palestinian writer Asia Shibli.