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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
Interview With Prisoner X, Accused by the Bashar Al-Assad Regime of Terrorism

Interview With Prisoner X, Accused by the Bashar Al-Assad Regime of Terrorism

A Syrian refugee successfully resettled in Brussels shares part of his story.

15 OCTOBER 2021 • By
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
Hasteem, We Are Here: The Collective for Black Iranians

Hasteem, We Are Here: The Collective for Black Iranians

  Twelve Gates Arts and the Collective for Black Iranians are hosting “Hasteem: We Are Here” from September 3-24,...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Aimée Papazian
For Somalia’s Sagal Ali and Her Country’s Future, Art Triumphs Over War

For Somalia’s Sagal Ali and Her Country’s Future, Art Triumphs Over War

  Art historian Sophie Kazan speaks to Sagal Ali about the importance of art-making for the future of...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Sophie Kazan Makhlouf
Flagbearer of a Stateless Nation, from “Daughters of Smoke and Fire”

Flagbearer of a Stateless Nation, from “Daughters of Smoke and Fire”

The following is excerpted from Chapter 14 in Ava Homa’s Daughters of Smoke and Fire and appears in...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Omar El Akkad
Three Poems by Kashmiri American Bard Agha Shahid Ali

Three Poems by Kashmiri American Bard Agha Shahid Ali

Agha Shahid Ali Tonight    Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar                          —Laurence Hope...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Karima Ahdad
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
The Limits of Empathy in Rabih Alameddine’s Refugee Saga

The Limits of Empathy in Rabih Alameddine’s Refugee Saga

The Wrong End of the Telescope a novel by Rabih Alameddine Grove Atlantic (Sept 2021) ISBN 9780802157805 Dima...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By khulud khamis
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