Novelist and filmmaker Tariq Mehmood weaves a tale of wasta, women and booze in Rawalpindi.
14 JUNE 2021 • By Tariq Mehmood
After surviving an Egyptian prison and obtaining asylum in the United States, Ahmed Naji contemplates wasta and standing...
14 JUNE 2021 • By Ahmed Naji
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
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
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
Victoria Schneider reports from Beirut on the new Wasta board game that satirizes corruption in Lebanon.
14 JUNE 2021 • By Samir El-Youssef
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
"I would like to break the walls of ignorance between East and West." Walls and barriers are what...
14 MAY 2021 • By Jordan Elgrably
Saleem Vaillancourt describes the worldwide mural campaign spearheaded by Maziar Bahari on behalf the Baha'i community to speak...
14 MAY 2021 • By Frances Zaid
Former Egypt and Turkey-based photographer Claudia Wiens documents street art of the Arab Spring.
14 MAY 2021 • By Saleem Vaillancourt
