Khaled Diab, author of Intimate Enemies: Living with Israelis and Palestinians in the Holy Land, meditates on the...
14 JULY 2021 • By Khaled Diab
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
California poet and activist Tony Litwinko reacts to the painted images in "Gaza: Mowing the Lawn" from Jaime...
14 JULY 2021 • By Diane Shammas
Art critic Sagi Refael reviews painted images from the 2014 Gaza war that he calls "one of the...
14 JULY 2021 • By Sagi Refael
Novelist and filmmaker Tariq Mehmood weaves a tale of wasta, women and booze in Rawalpindi.
14 JUNE 2021 • By Tariq Mehmood
Our correspondent in Tunis, Emna Mizouni, reports on the vaccination crisis exacerbated by wasta.
14 JUNE 2021 • By Raja Shehadeh
Bethlehem chef Fadi Kattan recalls the disaster of wasta leading up to Christmas Eve at Fawda restaurant.
14 JUNE 2021 • By Ella Shohat
Novelist Samir El-Youssef recalls adolescent challenges and more recent experience where wasta was a necessity.
14 JUNE 2021 • By Tariq Mehmood
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
Victoria Schneider reports from Beirut on the new Wasta board game that satirizes corruption in Lebanon.
14 JUNE 2021 • By Samir El-Youssef
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
Author and attorney Raja Shehadeh recounts the legend of Ramallah's ritzy neighborhood, designed for heroes of the Palestinian...
14 JUNE 2021 • By Raja Shehadeh
