Why WALLS?
"I would like to break the walls of ignorance between East and West." Walls and barriers are what we erect when we have no words.
"I would like to break the walls of ignorance between East and West." Walls and barriers are what we erect when we have no words.
Saleem Vaillancourt describes the worldwide mural campaign spearheaded by Maziar Bahari on behalf the Baha'i community to speak out about Iran's persecution of its largest religious minority.
Former Egypt and Turkey-based photographer Claudia Wiens documents street art of the Arab Spring.
There are some walls we can't discuss freely and openly without inviting censure. This is one of them.
Yemen street artist, activist and mother Haifa Subay speaks to Farah Abdessamad about the state of the country and her work.
In this creative exploration of identity and homelessness, Sheana Ochoa faces her own inner walls and travels to Auschwitz.
Taylor Miller explores the aesthetics of gentrification and the "settler colonial hydra that continually displaces, erases, and reinscribes Palestinian space."
Muralist Francisco Letelier travels to the West Bank to help a Palestinian community confront the Occupation with art.
Roving reporter Todd Miller, who has published four books exploring the world and its borders, questions the philosophy of walls.
A new poem by Sholeh Wolpé from the forthcoming collection, Abacus of Loss, University of Arkansas Press 2022.
We accompany a family fleeing civil war for safe harbor, in a short story by Aida Y. Haddad.
Chef Fadi Kattan, fed up with walls, Covid and strife with Israel, shares a classic Palestinian recipe.