15 November, 2021 • Omar El Akkad
Novelist Omar El Akkad ("What Strange Paradise", "American War") warns that wildfires and other climate disasters are creating the conditions for a global refugee crisis the world is not prepared for.
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15 November, 2021 • Megan Marshall
Megan Marshall on living with things lost in the Caldor Fire and revisiting Henry David Thoreau.
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8 November, 2021 • Deborah Kapchan
In which the editor of "Poetic Justice: An Anthology of Contemporary Moroccan Poetry" remembers her introduction to life in Marrakesh.
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15 October, 2021 • Ivar Ekeland, Sara Roy
Ivar Ekeland and Sara Roy A new kind of politics is emerging in Western democracies, perhaps best characterized by fragmentation. The political debate is increasingly digital, visual, and incoherent—without… Continue reading The New Politics of Exclusion: Gaza as Prologue
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15 October, 2021 • Ramzy Baroud
Zakaria Zubeidi is not just a single person but a whole generation of Palestinians in the West Bank who are caught up in an impossible dilemma, having to choose… Continue reading The Untold Story of Zakaria Zubeidi
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15 October, 2021 • Ramzy Baroud
The following text by Khalida Jarrar first appeared in These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons, by Ramzy Baroud (Clarity Press, 2019). … Continue reading Khalida Jarrar—Fashioning Hope Out of Despair: How to Resist and Win inside Israeli Prisons
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15 September, 2021 • Ara Oshagan
Ara Oshagan I am walking along the narrow and labyrinthine Armenian neighborhoods of Bourj Hammoud in Beirut—spaces with names like Nor (new) Marash, Nor Sis, Nor Yozgat. These are the… Continue reading Displaced: From Beirut to Los Angeles to Beirut
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15 September, 2021 • Brahim El Guabli
Brahim El Guabli I am Amazigh, Black, and Sahrawi. Amazigh language is my mother tongue. My mother is Black, and my father is Sahrawi. The only picture I own… Continue reading My Amazigh Indigeneity (the Bifurcated Roots of a Native Moroccan)
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15 September, 2021 • Ava Homa
Ava Homa how statelessness, trauma and political exile shaped her novel Daughters of Smoke and Fire Coming of age as a Kurdish girl in Iran, I learned early on… Continue reading Why Resistance Is Foundational to Kurdish Literature
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15 September, 2021 • Nevine Abraham
Nevine Abraham Growing up in Shoubra, one of the most populated Christian suburbs of Cairo, I met all my Muslim friends at a French Catholic school, which they and… Continue reading The Complexity of Belonging: Reflections of a Female Copt
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15 September, 2021 • Omar El Akkad
Omar El Akkad, author of American War and What Strange Paradise, looks at 20 years of blowback.
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15 September, 2021 • Aimée Papazian
Aimée Papazian Art and text by Aimée Papazian; photos by Stephen Ironside “Voyage of Lost Keys,” a permanent art installation recently installed in the Fayetteville Public Library in Arkansas,… Continue reading Voyage of Lost Keys, an Armenian art installation
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