House Arrest
Claire Berlinski I knew this lockdown business was serious when they cancelled my convocation. I had a convocation—a summons—to renew my carte de séjour. I had been told to present myself at… Continue reading House Arrest
Category: TMR 14 • IMPRISONMENT
The New Politics of Exclusion: Gaza as Prologue
Ivar Ekeland and Sara Roy A new kind of politics is emerging in Western democracies, perhaps best characterized by fragmentation. The political debate is increasingly digital, visual, and incoherent—without… Continue reading The New Politics of Exclusion: Gaza as Prologue
Prison Letters From a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row
Excerpts from Pen Pal: Prison Letters From a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row Tiyo Attallah Salah-El, edited by Paul Alan Smith Or Books (Sept. 2020) ISBN 9781682193044 Tiyo… Continue reading Prison Letters From a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row
Guantánamo Voices: True Accounts From the World’s Most Infamous Prison
Excerpt from Guantánamo Voices: True Accounts From the World’s Most Infamous Prison A graphic novel, edited by Sarah Mirk, with an introduction by Omar El Akkad Abrams ComicArts (June 2020)… Continue reading Guantánamo Voices: True Accounts From the World’s Most Infamous Prison
Faraj Bayrakdar, Once Syria’s Prisoner, is Freedom’s Poet
India Hixon Radfar A Dove In Free Flight, Selected Poems of Faraj Bayrakdar Edited & introduced by Ammiel Alcalay and Shareah Taleghani Upset Press (October 2021) The truth is… Continue reading Faraj Bayrakdar, Once Syria’s Prisoner, is Freedom’s Poet
Memoirs of a Militant, My Years in the Khiam Women’s Prison
Excerpts from Memoirs of a Militant, My Years in the Khiam Women’s Prison By Nawal Qasim Baidoun, translated by Michelle Hartman & Caline Nasrallah Olive Branch Press/Interlink Books (October… Continue reading Memoirs of a Militant, My Years in the Khiam Women’s Prison
The Untold Story of Zakaria Zubeidi
Ramzy Baroud writes of a whole generation of Palestinians in the West Bank who are caught up in an impossible dilemma.
The Passion of Evangelina | fiction
Anthoney Dimos Before midnight, on November 17, police officer Pavlos Petros found Evangelina Christodoulaki, a college student, from the village of Katerini in Sfakia on the island of Crete, hanging… Continue reading The Passion of Evangelina | fiction
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.
Poetry: Mohammed El-Kurd’s “Rifqa” Reviewed
Rifqa, poems by Mohammed el-Kurd Haymarket Books (Sept. 2021) ISBN: 9781642595864 India Hixon Radfar Poet Mohammed El-Kurd often plays by pairing his words, thus doubling or halving their… Continue reading Poetry: Mohammed El-Kurd’s “Rifqa” Reviewed
Gitmo and Abu Ghraib, Infamous Symbols of US Human Rights Violations
Lawyers Beyond Borders, Advancing International Human Rights Through Local Laws and Courts By Maria Armoudian University of Michigan Press (Sept 2021) ISBN 9780472132560 Mischa Geracoulis “The human rights cases… Continue reading Gitmo and Abu Ghraib, Infamous Symbols of US Human Rights Violations
Khalida Jarrar—Fashioning Hope Out of Despair: How to Resist and Win inside Israeli Prisons
The following text by Khalida Jarrar first appeared in These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons, by Ramzy Baroud (Clarity Press, 2019). … Continue reading Khalida Jarrar—Fashioning Hope Out of Despair: How to Resist and Win inside Israeli Prisons