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Taming the Immigrant: Musings of a Writer in Exile

Taming the Immigrant: Musings of a Writer in Exile

Former prisoner and Egyptian writer in exile Ahmed Naji contemplates what it means to be a "brown writer"...

15 JANUARY 2022 • By Ahmed Naji
Children in Search of Refuge: a Photographic Essay

Children in Search of Refuge: a Photographic Essay

Photographer, documentarian and journalist Iason Athanasiadis shares images from more than 10 years of reporting from Afghanistan to...

15 JANUARY 2022 • By Iason Athanasiadis
Objective Brits, Subjective Syrians

Objective Brits, Subjective Syrians

"What a British person imagined Syria or the Middle East to be ... was more important than what...

6 DECEMBER 2021 • By Rana Haddad
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
Traveling in Contentious Spaces — Saudi Arabia

Traveling in Contentious Spaces — Saudi Arabia

When friends in Abu Dhabi asked Deborah Williams how she could support MBS by going to “his” festival,...

22 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Deborah Williams
Etel Adnan’s Sun and Sea: In Remembrance

Etel Adnan’s Sun and Sea: In Remembrance

Art critic Arie Amaya-Akkermans summons the gods of art and poetry as he reviews the life work of...

19 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Climate Disasters Hasten the Advent of a World Refugee Crisis

Climate Disasters Hasten the Advent of a World Refugee Crisis

Novelist Omar El Akkad ("What Strange Paradise", "American War") warns that wildfires and other climate disasters are creating...

15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Omar El Akkad
Reconsidering Thoreau in a Burning World

Reconsidering Thoreau in a Burning World

Megan Marshall on living with things lost in the Caldor Fire and revisiting Henry David Thoreau.

15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Megan Marshall
A Street in Marrakesh Revisited

A Street in Marrakesh Revisited

In which the editor of "Poetic Justice: An Anthology of Contemporary Moroccan Poetry" remembers her introduction to life...

8 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Deborah Kapchan
The New Politics of Exclusion: Gaza as Prologue

The New Politics of Exclusion: Gaza as Prologue

Gaza’s small size, its misery, and continued vulnerability belie its profound significance, which has always been misunderstood and...

15 OCTOBER 2021 • By Ivar Ekeland
The Untold Story of Zakaria Zubeidi

The Untold Story of Zakaria Zubeidi

Ramzy Baroud writes of a whole generation of Palestinians in the West Bank who are caught up in...

15 OCTOBER 2021 • By Ramzy Baroud
Khalida Jarrar—How to Resist and Win inside Israeli Prisons

Khalida Jarrar—How to Resist and Win inside Israeli Prisons

Ramzy Baroud presents an excerpt of the memoir by former Israeli prisoner and attorney Khalida Jarrar.

15 OCTOBER 2021 • By Ramzy Baroud
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