“Gaza: Mowing the Lawn” by Artist Jaime Scholnick
Art critic Sagi Refael reviews painted images from the 2014 Gaza war that he calls "one of the most significant politically-charged art series of recent years."
Art critic Sagi Refael reviews painted images from the 2014 Gaza war that he calls "one of the most significant politically-charged art series of recent years."
California poet and activist Tony Litwinko reacts to the painted images in "Gaza: Mowing the Lawn" from Jaime Scholnick.
Jenine Abboushi recalls family histories and lifelong friendships linking Gaza with Ramallah, Jenin and Jerusalem.
The screenwriter and would-be director of Gaza Airport recounts her struggle to make a feature film in Gaza.
Khaled Diab, author of Intimate Enemies: Living with Israelis and Palestinians in the Holy Land, meditates on the implacable illogic of the Gaza-Israel stalemate.
Hadani Ditmars reviews the new tome from Terreform and AUC Press that gives Gazans hope for a better future, if they can build it.
A native Californian of Arab heritage finds herself returning to Gaza again and again to teach promising students at Al Azhar University.
Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein has been going to Gaza for more than a decade and remains an admirer of its people.
El Habib Louai on the Moroccan novel that sizes up and lampoons a country coming into its own in the internet age.
Maryam Zar reviews the new biography from Kai Bird, examining the one-term president who went on to change the world.
Jessica Proett reviews Salar Abdoh's empirical novel set during the days when ISIS was running loose across Iraq and Syria.
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TMR reviews a new book on Palestinian and Israeli musicians looks at the border zones and interstices of the conflict.
Musician and Middle East historian Mark LeVine interviews ethnomusicologist Nili Belkind on her new book profiling Palestinian and Israeli musicians.
Our editorial outlines the fact that wasta isn't exclusively an Arab problem, but one that plagues societies east and west.