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Torture Is the Nasty Center of the 9/11 Case at Guantánamo

Torture Is the Nasty Center of the 9/11 Case at Guantánamo

In our centerpiece this month, Lisa Hajjar takes us inside the war on terror and the dystopia that...

14 MARCH 2021 • By Layla AlAmmar
A visual poem from Hala Alyan: Gaza

A visual poem from Hala Alyan: Gaza

A spoken word poem from the author of The Twenty-Ninth Year and The Arsonists' City.

14 MARCH 2021 • By
Secrets, Leaks, and the Imperative of Truth and Transparency

Secrets, Leaks, and the Imperative of Truth and Transparency

Stephen Rohde on how widespread government secrecy, alongside the punishment of truth-tellers, betrays fundamental principles underlying democracy.

14 MARCH 2021 • By Stephen Rohde
The Truth About Syria: Mahmoud’s Story

The Truth About Syria: Mahmoud’s Story

Mischa Geracoulis shares the story of an art project among refugee children that helped Mahmoud Ismail through hard...

14 MARCH 2021 • By Alia Mossallam
Dinner at the White House, in the Lion’s Den

Dinner at the White House, in the Lion’s Den

Francisco Letelier searches for the truth about his father's assassination in Washington DC while excavating US government complicity...

14 MARCH 2021 • By Francisco Letelier
Truth or Dare? Reinterpreting Al-Harīrī’s Arab Rogue

Truth or Dare? Reinterpreting Al-Harīrī’s Arab Rogue

Farah Abdessamad reviews a new English translation of Impostures from Basra-born Al-Hariri that revives the "eloquent rogue" genre...

14 MARCH 2021 • By Danielle Haque
Academics Decry French Attacks on “Islamo-Leftists”

Academics Decry French Attacks on “Islamo-Leftists”

Hundreds of French and Anglophone academics are speaking out against what they call the French government’s “conspiracy theory”...

14 MARCH 2021 • By
The New Gatekeepers: How proprietary algorithms increasingly determine the news we see

The New Gatekeepers: How proprietary algorithms increasingly determine the news we see

Would you trust an algorithm to sell you a used car? Andy Lee Roth peers under the hood...

14 MARCH 2021 • By Andy Lee Roth
On Literacy and the Lack Thereof

On Literacy and the Lack Thereof

Marcus Gilroy-Ware, the author of After the Fact, The Truth About Fake News, warns that literacy and numeracy...

14 MARCH 2021 • By Marcus Gilroy-Ware
Revolution Viewed from the Crow’s Nest of History

Revolution Viewed from the Crow’s Nest of History

Columnist Melissa Chemam argues we ought to take the long view on the Arab uprisings and remember the...

15 FEBRUARY 2021 • By Melissa Chemam
A Permanent Temporariness

A Permanent Temporariness

An Egyptian in Berlin finds she and her partner live in a state of seemingly permanent transition.

14 FEBRUARY 2021 • By Alia Mossallam
Revolution in Art, a review of “Reflections” at the British Museum

Revolution in Art, a review of “Reflections” at the British Museum

Malu Halasa reviews a selection of the 170 Arab, Iranian and Turkish artists and artworks in the British...

14 FEBRUARY 2021 • By Malu Halasa
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