A native Californian of Arab heritage finds herself returning to Gaza again and again to teach promising students...
14 JULY 2021 • By Diane Shammas
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
Jenine Abboushi recalls family histories and lifelong friendships linking Gaza with Ramallah, Jenin and Jerusalem.
14 JULY 2021 • By Jenine Abboushi
One of the cofounders of the Free Gaza movement to break the siege of Gaza, Greta Berlin, tells...
14 JULY 2021 • By Greta Berlin
In which C.S. Layla, the American daughter of a Jordanian professor, remembers life and wasta in the old...
14 JUNE 2021 • By C.S. Layla
Lawrence Joffe on how the al-Assad and Makhlouf families have mastered the art of control and corruption in...
14 JUNE 2021 • By Lawrence Joffe
There are some walls we can't discuss freely and openly without inviting censure. This is one of them.
14 MAY 2021 • By Jean Lamore
In this creative exploration of identity and homelessness, Sheana Ochoa faces her own inner walls and travels to...
14 MAY 2021 • By Sheana Ochoa
Frances Zaid describes in epistolary fashion the language barriers in her blooming relationship (leading to marriage and kids)...
14 MAY 2021 • By Frances Zaid
Critic Ziad Suidan meditates on the meaning of the labyrinth and the walls that can separate us but...
14 MAY 2021 • By Ziad Suidan
Taylor Miller explores the aesthetics of gentrification and the "settler colonial hydra that continually displaces, erases, and reinscribes...
14 MAY 2021 • By Taylor Miller
Muralist Francisco Letelier travels to the West Bank to help a Palestinian community confront the Occupation with art.
14 MAY 2021 • By Francisco Letelier
