Our correspondent in Tunis, Emna Mizouni, reports on the vaccination crisis exacerbated by wasta.
JUNE 14, 2021 • By Raja Shehadeh
Author and attorney Raja Shehadeh recounts the legend of Ramallah's ritzy neighborhood, designed for heroes of the Palestinian...
JUNE 14, 2021 • By Raja Shehadeh
Mischa Geracoulis discovers the film Push and explores the incredible greed and inequity of the speculative housing market.
JUNE 14, 2021 • By Mischa Geracoulis
Novelist and filmmaker Tariq Mehmood weaves a tale of wasta, women and booze in Rawalpindi.
JUNE 14, 2021 • By Tariq Mehmood
Bethlehem chef Fadi Kattan recalls the disaster of wasta leading up to Christmas Eve at Fawda restaurant.
JUNE 14, 2021 • By Ella Shohat
Novelist Samir El-Youssef recalls adolescent challenges and more recent experience where wasta was a necessity.
JUNE 14, 2021 • By Tariq Mehmood
After surviving an Egyptian prison and obtaining asylum in the United States, Ahmed Naji contemplates wasta and standing...
JUNE 14, 2021 • By Ahmed Naji
In which C.S. Layla, the American daughter of a Jordanian professor, remembers life and wasta in the old...
JUNE 14, 2021 • By C.S. Layla
Victoria Schneider reports from Beirut on the new Wasta board game that satirizes corruption in Lebanon.
JUNE 14, 2021 • By Samir El-Youssef
Lawrence Joffe on how the al-Assad and Makhlouf families have mastered the art of control and corruption in...
JUNE 14, 2021 • By Lawrence Joffe
