Mischa Geracoulis joins filmmaker Yung Chang and the late muckraker Robert Fisk in asking us to think about...
14 JULY 2021 • By Alia Mossallam
Khaled Diab, author of Intimate Enemies: Living with Israelis and Palestinians in the Holy Land, meditates on the...
14 JULY 2021 • By Khaled Diab
Author and attorney Raja Shehadeh recounts the legend of Ramallah's ritzy neighborhood, designed for heroes of the Palestinian...
14 JUNE 2021 • By Raja Shehadeh
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