Bethlehem chef Fadi Kattan recalls the disaster of wasta leading up to Christmas Eve at Fawda restaurant.
14 JUNE 2021 • By Ella Shohat
Novelist Samir El-Youssef recalls adolescent challenges and more recent experience where wasta was a necessity.
14 JUNE 2021 • By Tariq Mehmood
Victoria Schneider reports from Beirut on the new Wasta board game that satirizes corruption in Lebanon.
14 JUNE 2021 • By Samir El-Youssef
Our correspondent in Tunis, Emna Mizouni, reports on the vaccination crisis exacerbated by wasta.
14 JUNE 2021 • By Raja Shehadeh
In anticipation of Sunday's Oscars, in which another Palestinian film has been nominated, Jordan Elgrably talks to Palestinians...
21 APRIL 2021 • By Jordan Elgrably
Mischa Geracoulis reads Last Rites about the death of William Saroyan and remembers her grandfather who instilled in...
19 APRIL 2021 • By Alia Mossallam
Poet, author and artist Aram Saroyan remembers what it was like growing up as the son of a...
19 APRIL 2021 • By Joyce Zonana
No other instrument entrances quite like the ‘ud. Sherifa Zuhur presents a portrait of the world's notable ‘ud...
21 MARCH 2021 • By Rana Haddad
Drummer and author John Densmore recalls the mastery and the mysticism of his late friend Hani Naser.
21 MARCH 2021 • By TMR
Mischa Geracoulis shares the story of an art project among refugee children that helped Mahmoud Ismail through hard...
14 MARCH 2021 • By Alia Mossallam
Hundreds of French and Anglophone academics are speaking out against what they call the French government’s “conspiracy theory”...
14 MARCH 2021 • By
Claire Launchbury writes of one man's long search for the truth about Lebanon's civil war, cut short by...
14 MARCH 2021 • By Claire Launchbury
