Novelist Samir El-Youssef recalls adolescent challenges and more recent experience where wasta was a necessity.
JUNE 14, 2021 • By Tariq Mehmood
In which C.S. Layla, the American daughter of a Jordanian professor, remembers life and wasta in the old...
JUNE 14, 2021 • By C.S. Layla
Victoria Schneider reports from Beirut on the new Wasta board game that satirizes corruption in Lebanon.
JUNE 14, 2021 • By Samir El-Youssef
Lawrence Joffe on how the al-Assad and Makhlouf families have mastered the art of control and corruption in...
JUNE 14, 2021 • By Lawrence Joffe
Author and attorney Raja Shehadeh recounts the legend of Ramallah's ritzy neighborhood, designed for heroes of the Palestinian...
JUNE 14, 2021 • By Raja Shehadeh
"I would like to break the walls of ignorance between East and West." Walls and barriers are what...
MAY 14, 2021 • By Jordan Elgrably
Saleem Vaillancourt describes the worldwide mural campaign spearheaded by Maziar Bahari on behalf the Baha'i community to speak...
MAY 14, 2021 • By Frances Zaid
Former Egypt and Turkey-based photographer Claudia Wiens documents street art of the Arab Spring.
MAY 14, 2021 • By Saleem Vaillancourt
Yemen street artist, activist and mother Haifa Subay speaks to Farah Abdessamad about the state of the country...
MAY 14, 2021 • By Danielle Haque
There are some walls we can't discuss freely and openly without inviting censure. This is one of them.
MAY 14, 2021 • By Jean Lamore
In this creative exploration of identity and homelessness, Sheana Ochoa faces her own inner walls and travels to...
MAY 14, 2021 • By Sheana Ochoa
Taylor Miller explores the aesthetics of gentrification and the "settler colonial hydra that continually displaces, erases, and reinscribes...
MAY 14, 2021 • By Taylor Miller
