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Reconciling Ouarzazate with Solar Energy in Our Desert Town

Reconciling Ouarzazate with Solar Energy in Our Desert Town

As a solar power plant overtakes a Moroccan desert town, reconfiguring its visual and territorial makeup, there are...

15 JANUARY 2024 • By Brahim El Guabli
Gaza Sunbirds: the Palestinian Para-Cyclists Who Won’t Quit

Gaza Sunbirds: the Palestinian Para-Cyclists Who Won’t Quit

Gaza's professional para-cycling team for amputee athletes rise above Gaza's darkest days through determination and excellence in sport.

25 DECEMBER 2023 • By Malu Halasa
In Praise of Khaled Khalifa—Friend, Artist, Humanist

In Praise of Khaled Khalifa—Friend, Artist, Humanist

Robin Yassin-Kassab pays tribute to late Syrian writer and humanist Khaled Khalifa, who died at the age of...

16 OCTOBER 2023 • By Robin Yassin-Kassab
Donkeys and Mules—Motors of the High Atlas Mountains

Donkeys and Mules—Motors of the High Atlas Mountains

Aomar Boom describes the centrality of donkeys and mules to life in the unforgiving earthquake-shattered terrain of the...

25 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By Aomar Boum
Newly Re-Opened, Beirut’s Sursock Museum is a Survivor

Newly Re-Opened, Beirut’s Sursock Museum is a Survivor

Arie Amaya-Akkermans recounts the history of Beirut's museum, with its multiple destructions and resurrections.

12 JUNE 2023 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
When a Country is not a Country—the Chimera of Borders

When a Country is not a Country—the Chimera of Borders

Writer-photographer Ara Oshagan mediates on the borders between North and South Korea and the blockaded enclave of Artsakh.

17 APRIL 2023 • By Ara Oshagan
End of an Era: Al Saqi Bookshop in London Closes

End of an Era: Al Saqi Bookshop in London Closes

Malu Halasa surveys the legacy of Al Saqi while also lamenting the end of Banipal Magazine and the...

16 JANUARY 2023 • By Malu Halasa
Zajal — the Darija Poets of Morocco

Zajal — the Darija Poets of Morocco

Author and Darija translator Deborah Kapchan recalls her friendship with two of Morocco's greatest contemporary poets.

11 APRIL 2022 • By Deborah Kapchan
Syria Through British Eyes

Syria Through British Eyes

British-Syrian novelist Rana Haddad compares her experience growing up in Syria with the way people beyond Syria's borders...

29 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Rana Haddad
 
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