Opinion

What Shirin Neshat Taught Me About Iran

What Shirin Neshat Taught Me About Iran

Neshat’s work reminds us that Iran has always contained multitudes: radical artists, secular thinkers, feminists, modernists.

16 JANUARY 2026 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
Chutzpah! Observations On Trump’s Peace Plan

Chutzpah! Observations On Trump’s Peace Plan

Amal Ghandour helps parse these Orwellian times from the perspective of an Arab writer living between Beirut, Amman...

10 OCTOBER 2025 • By Amal Ghandour
The Pen and the Sword — Censorship Threatens Us All

The Pen and the Sword — Censorship Threatens Us All

Anna Badkhen argues that the moral bankruptcy of American intellectuals…will only kick us down the hole deeper, faster.

2 MAY 2025 • By Anna Badkhen
The Western Way of Genocide

The Western Way of Genocide

Gaza was meant from the start of the genocide to be bombed into rubble, to be made uninhabitable...

14 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Chris Hedges
Susan Abulhawa at Oxford Union on Palestine/Israel

Susan Abulhawa at Oxford Union on Palestine/Israel

Susan Abulhawa gave a speech at Oxford Union as a resolution passed determining "Israel is an apartheid state...

6 DECEMBER 2024 • By Susan Abulhawa
Should a Climate-Destroying Dictatorship Host a Climate-Saving Conference?

Should a Climate-Destroying Dictatorship Host a Climate-Saving Conference?

A year after committing ethnic cleansing, Azerbaijan prepares to host COP29 with little pushback from mainstream media.

25 OCTOBER 2024 • By Lucine Kasbarian
Everything Has Changed, Nothing Has Changed

Everything Has Changed, Nothing Has Changed

A Beiruti interrogates her country's perennial condition with its neighbor in the aftermath of October 7 and the...

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Amal Ghandour
Lebanon’s Holy Gatekeepers of Free Speech

Lebanon’s Holy Gatekeepers of Free Speech

When religious fanatics in Lebanon aren’t fighting one another, they make the best war comrades against modernity, secularism,...

6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Joumana Haddad
Censorship over Gaza and Palestine Roils the Arts Community

Censorship over Gaza and Palestine Roils the Arts Community

An Arab playwright in London reacts to the canceling of Palestinian voices six months into a horrific war.

12 APRIL 2024 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
Genocide: “That bell can’t be unrung. That thought can’t be unthunk.”

Genocide: “That bell can’t be unrung. That thought can’t be unthunk.”

After the ICJ ruling on Israel, it is in its best interests to redefine its cause to one...

3 MARCH 2024 • By Amal Ghandour
Palestine’s Pen against Israel’s Swords of Injustice

Palestine’s Pen against Israel’s Swords of Injustice

Novelist Mai Al-Nakib opines that despite the bombs and the bullets, Arab voices and cultural narratives are on...

6 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Mai Al-Nakib
From Pawns to Global Powers: Middle East Nations Strike Back

From Pawns to Global Powers: Middle East Nations Strike Back

Former ambassador Chas Freeman, Jr. argues that we have entered a new era in which players are shifting...

29 MAY 2023 • By Chas Freeman, Jr.
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