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Category: TMR 15 • FIRE

15 November, 2021 • Hadani Ditmars

Burning Forests, Burning Nations

Columnist Hadani Ditmars recounts meeting strangers at the beach during fire season in British Columbia and finds Syria and Turkey are shared homelands.

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15 November, 2021 • Tariq Mehmood

Fiction: The Settlement

From Tariq Mehmood comes an allegorical story with the strange beauty and simplicity of a tale by Ghassan Kanafani or J.M. Coetzee.

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15 November, 2021 • Omar El Akkad

Climate Disasters Hasten the Advent of a World Refugee Crisis

Novelist Omar El Akkad ("What Strange Paradise", "American War") warns that wildfires and other climate disasters are creating the conditions for a global refugee crisis the world is not prepared for.

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15 November, 2021 • Basil Al-Adraa

Killing Olive Trees Fails to Push Palestinians Out

Olive trees are majestic, they are the source of many livelihoods throughout Palestine, and they have too often been slashed and torched by Israeli settlers. Olive trees should never be pawns in a political supremacy game. Basil al-Adraa reports.

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15 November, 2021 • TMR

FIRE: An Abbreviated Reading List

Here are a few staff picks in a very short list that could benefit from having us add your own fire-related titles. Come on, light our fire.

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15 November, 2021 • Munir Atalla

Alchemy and the Deaf Blacksmith of Amman

Munir Atalla, the Brooklyn-based writer-director, recounts the story of a rather unusually happy, earnest man with a handicap and a skill.

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15 November, 2021 • Jenny Pollak

Poem: An Allegory for Our Times

Jenny Pollak, a poet in Australia, captures the unrelenting menace of a changing world.

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15 November, 2021 • Fadi Kattan

Sacred Fire, Profane Fire: From Ritual to Barbecue

Bethlehem's top chef Fadi Kattan waxes enthusiastic on fire, grilling and the art of turning meat pink.

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15 November, 2021 • A.J. Naddaff

Diary of the Collapse: Charif Majdalani on Lebanon’s Trials by Fire

A.J. Naddaff reviews the latest work of creative nonfiction by Lebanon's Charif Majdalani, as his nation teeters on the edge of the abyss.

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15 November, 2021 • Megan Marshall

Reconsidering Thoreau in a Burning World

Megan Marshall on living with things lost in the Caldor Fire and revisiting Henry David Thoreau.

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15 November, 2021 • Hadani Ditmars

The Vanishing: Are Arab Christians an Endangered Minority?

Hadani Ditmars reviews Janine di Giovanni's ambitious new travelogue on beleaguered Christian communities in Iraq, Gaza, Syria, and Egypt.

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