Essays

Displaced: From Beirut to Los Angeles to Beirut

Displaced: From Beirut to Los Angeles to Beirut

Ara Oshagan I am walking along the narrow and labyrinthine Armenian neighborhoods of Bourj Hammoud in Beirut—spaces with...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Ara Oshagan
My Amazigh Indigeneity (the Bifurcated Roots of a Native Moroccan)

My Amazigh Indigeneity (the Bifurcated Roots of a Native Moroccan)

Brahim El Guabli   I am Amazigh, Black, and Sahrawi. Amazigh language is my mother tongue. My mother...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Brahim El Guabli
Why Resistance Is Foundational to Kurdish Literature

Why Resistance Is Foundational to Kurdish Literature

Kurdish writer Ava Homa on how statelessness, trauma and political exile shaped her novel "Daughters of Smoke and...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Ava Homa
The Complexity of Belonging: Reflections of a Female Copt

The Complexity of Belonging: Reflections of a Female Copt

  Nevine Abraham Growing up in Shoubra, one of the most populated Christian suburbs of Cairo, I met...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Nevine Abraham
Attack the Empire and the Empire Strikes Back: What 20 Years of American Imperialism Has Wrought

Attack the Empire and the Empire Strikes Back: What 20 Years of American Imperialism Has Wrought

Omar El Akkad, author of American War and What Strange Paradise, looks at 20 years of blowback.

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Omar El Akkad
Voyage of Lost Keys, an Armenian art installation

Voyage of Lost Keys, an Armenian art installation

Aimée Papazian Art and text by Aimée Papazian; photos by Stephen Ironside   “Voyage of Lost Keys,” a...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Aimée Papazian
Obdurate Moroccan Memories: Abdelkrim’s Afterlife in a Graphic Novel

Obdurate Moroccan Memories: Abdelkrim’s Afterlife in a Graphic Novel

Brahim El Guabli writes about the Amazigh leader and resistance fighter Abdelkarim who inspired great Moroccan graphic novels.

15 AUGUST 2021 • By Brahim El Guabli
The Gaza Mythologies

The Gaza Mythologies

Historian and thinker Ilan Pappe deconstructs three problematic myths about Gaza and Hamas in this except from his...

14 JULY 2021 • By Ilan Pappé
Gaza, You and Me

Gaza, You and Me

A Palestinian student in Gaza and a Palestinian doing post-doctoral work in the States compare their experience of...

14 JULY 2021 • By Abdallah Salha
Alive in Gaza

Alive in Gaza

Ramzy Baroud tells the story of an American solidarity activist who went to Gaza and wound up living...

14 JULY 2021 • By Ramzy Baroud
In Retrospect: An American Educator in Gaza

In Retrospect: An American Educator in Gaza

A native Californian of Arab heritage finds herself returning to Gaza again and again to teach promising students...

14 JULY 2021 • By Diane Shammas
Making a Film in Gaza

Making a Film in Gaza

The screenwriter and would-be director of Gaza Airport recounts her struggle to make a feature film in Gaza.

14 JULY 2021 • By Elana Golden
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