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Alchemy and the Deaf Blacksmith of Amman

Alchemy and the Deaf Blacksmith of Amman

Munir Atalla, the Brooklyn-based writer-director, recounts the story of a rather unusually happy, earnest man with a handicap...

15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Munir Atalla
Poem: An Allegory for Our Times

Poem: An Allegory for Our Times

Jenny Pollak, a poet in Australia, captures the unrelenting menace of a changing world.

15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Ivar Ekeland
Sacred Fire, Profane Fire: From Ritual to Barbecue

Sacred Fire, Profane Fire: From Ritual to Barbecue

Bethlehem's top chef Fadi Kattan waxes enthusiastic on fire, grilling and the art of turning meat pink.

15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Ella Shohat
Diary of the Collapse—Charif Majdalani on Lebanon’s Trials by Fire

Diary of the Collapse—Charif Majdalani on Lebanon’s Trials by Fire

A.J. Naddaff reviews the latest work of creative nonfiction by Lebanon's Charif Majdalani, as his nation teeters on...

15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By A.J. Naddaff
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
The Vanishing: Are Arab Christians an Endangered Minority?

The Vanishing: Are Arab Christians an Endangered Minority?

Hadani Ditmars reviews Janine di Giovanni's ambitious new travelogue on beleaguered Christian communities in Iraq, Gaza, Syria, and...

15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Mohja Kahf
House Arrest

House Arrest

I knew this lockdown business was serious when they cancelled my convocation.

15 OCTOBER 2021 • By Claire Berlinski
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
Prison Letters From a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row

Prison Letters From a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row

With his letters from maximum security on death row, Tiyo Attallah Salah-El reveals what the prison experience is...

15 OCTOBER 2021 • By Tiyo Attallah Salah-El
Guantánamo—The World’s Most Infamous Prison

Guantánamo—The World’s Most Infamous Prison

An excerpt from Sarah Mirk's graphic novel describes life in the infamous US prison in Cuba.

15 OCTOBER 2021 • By Sarah Mirk
Faraj Bayrakdar, Once Syria’s Prisoner, is Freedom’s Poet

Faraj Bayrakdar, Once Syria’s Prisoner, is Freedom’s Poet

India Hixon Radfar reviews the newly-translated collection of poetry from a former prisoner in Syria.

15 OCTOBER 2021 • By India Hixon Radfar
Memoirs of a Militant, My Years in the Khiam Women’s Prison

Memoirs of a Militant, My Years in the Khiam Women’s Prison

An exclusive excerpt from the memoirs of Nawal Qasim Baidoun, the Lebanese militant imprisoned by Israel.

15 OCTOBER 2021 • By Nawal Qasim Baidoun
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