TMR 14
IMPRISONMENT
We live in a world defined by prisons, both literal and metaphorical, where dissenters and criminals alike can be confined for decades, have their lives ruined, or reduced to nothing, to an hour of sunlight a day. A world in which we fight our own internal wardens and guards, whether living with Covid confinements, the solitude of the chronically ill and disabled, or the literal prison of poverty, one’s choices reduced to bitterness. As novelist Elias Khoury has articulated, much of the Arab world and its contemporary literature can be defined by the prison experience — by the depredations of the state, torture, and martyrdom. Likewise, in the west, particularly in the US, the prison-industrial complex plays an outsized role in the lives of millions who are incarcerated—and forever marks those who love them.
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Prison Letters From a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row
With his letters from maximum security on death row, Tiyo Attallah Salah-El reveals what the prison experience is really like.
October 15, 2021 • By Tiyo Attallah Salah-El- TMR 14
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The Story of Jericho Sheikh Daoud and His Beloved Mansaf
Palestinian chef Fadi Kattan recounts the tale of famed imprisoned leader Sheikh Daoud Iriqat and his beloved dish, mansaf.
October 15, 2021 • By Fadi KattanMORE FROM THIS ISSUE
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I knew this lockdown business was serious when they cancelled my convocation.
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The New Politics of Exclusion: Gaza as Prologue
Gaza’s small size, its misery, and continued vulnerability belie its profound significance, which has always been misunderstood and overlooked—except by Israel.
15 OCTOBER, 2021 • BY IVAR EKELAND
Prison Letters From a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row
With his letters from maximum security on death row, Tiyo Attallah Salah-El reveals what the prison experience is really like.
15 OCTOBER, 2021 • BY TIYO ATTALLAH SALAH-EL
Guantánamo—The World’s Most Infamous Prison
An excerpt from Sarah Mirk's graphic novel describes life in the infamous US prison in Cuba.
15 OCTOBER, 2021 • BY SARAH MIRK
Faraj Bayrakdar, Once Syria’s Prisoner, is Freedom’s Poet
India Hixon Radfar reviews the newly-translated collection of poetry from a former prisoner in Syria.
15 OCTOBER, 2021 • BY INDIA HIXON RADFAR
Memoirs of a Militant, My Years in the Khiam Women’s Prison
An exclusive excerpt from the memoirs of Nawal Qasim Baidoun, the Lebanese militant imprisoned by Israel.
15 OCTOBER, 2021 • BY NAWAL QASIM BAIDOUN
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.
15 OCTOBER, 2021 • BY RAMZY BAROUD
“The Passion of Evangelina”—fiction from Anthoney Dimos
Protests, jails and death characterize this short story set in Athen's Syntagma Square, the site of many 20th-century dramas.
15 OCTOBER, 2021 • BY ANTHONEY DIMOS
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.
15 OCTOBER, 2021 • BY
Poetry: Mohammed El-Kurd’s Rifqa Reviewed
India Hixon Radfar reviews the first collection of poetry from Palestinian firebrand Mohammed El-Kurd.
15 OCTOBER, 2021 • BY INDIA HIXON RADFAR
Gitmo and Abu Ghraib, Infamous Symbols of US Human Rights Violations
Mischa Geracoulis reviews Maria Armoudian's "Lawyers Beyond Borders, Advancing International Human Rights Through Local Laws and Courts."
15 OCTOBER, 2021 • BY MISCHA GERACOULIS
Khalida Jarrar—How to Resist and Win inside Israeli Prisons
Ramzy Baroud presents an excerpt of the memoir by former Israeli prisoner and attorney Khalida Jarrar.
15 OCTOBER, 2021 • BY RAMZY BAROUD
The Story of Jericho Sheikh Daoud and His Beloved Mansaf
Palestinian chef Fadi Kattan recounts the tale of famed imprisoned leader Sheikh Daoud Iriqat and his beloved dish, mansaf.
15 OCTOBER, 2021 • BY FADI KATTAN