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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
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
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