Lebanon’s Wasta Has Contributed to the Country’s Collapse
Novelist Samir El-Youssef recalls adolescent challenges and more recent experience where wasta was a necessity.
Novelist Samir El-Youssef recalls adolescent challenges and more recent experience where wasta was a necessity.
Victoria Schneider reports from Beirut on the new Wasta board game that satirizes corruption in Lebanon.
In anticipation of Sunday's Oscars, in which another Palestinian film has been nominated, Jordan Elgrably talks to Palestinians and Israelis about their films and activism.
Mischa Geracoulis reads Last Rites about the death of William Saroyan and remembers her grandfather who instilled in her the strength of Armenian culture.
Poet, author and artist Aram Saroyan remembers what it was like growing up as the son of a famous Armenian American writer.
No other instrument entrances quite like the ‘ud. Sherifa Zuhur presents a portrait of the world's notable ‘ud masters.
Drummer and author John Densmore recalls the mastery and the mysticism of his late friend Hani Naser.
Claire Launchbury writes of one man's long search for the truth about Lebanon's civil war, cut short by his mysterious murder this year.
Hadani Ditmars remembers what Baghdad was like following the second Gulf War in 2003, when she toured Abu Ghraib with Robert Fisk.
Mischa Geracoulis shares the story of an art project among refugee children that helped Mahmoud Ismail through hard times.
Hundreds of French and Anglophone academics are speaking out against what they call the French government’s “conspiracy theory” and “witch hunt” of so-called Islamo-leftists.
International aid worker and writer Farah Abdessamad has been traveling to Yemen for work since 2014. This is the first time she has written about her experiences there publicly.