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The US Democracy Crisis is a Media Crisis and the Mainstream Press is Losing

The US Democracy Crisis is a Media Crisis and the Mainstream Press is Losing

Columnist Lorraine Ali remembers 2021 as the year of the January 6 insurrection, the Covid-19 pandemic and the...

DECEMBER 27, 2021 • By Jenny Pollak
Sudden Journeys: From Munich with Love and Realpolitik

Sudden Journeys: From Munich with Love and Realpolitik

A family tragedy (we all have them), powerful forms of devotion and love, and a common political approach...

DECEMBER 27, 2021 • By Jenine Abboushi
Music in the Middle East: Business can’t Buy Authenticity

Music in the Middle East: Business can’t Buy Authenticity

180,000 electronic music aficionados attended the SOUNDSTORM festival in Riyadh this month, but as columnist Melissa Chemam writes,...

DECEMBER 20, 2021 • By Melissa Chemam
Recovering/Remembering Love, Sex and Trauma

Recovering/Remembering Love, Sex and Trauma

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi follows her novels "Fra Keeler" and "Call Me Zebra" with a story set...

DECEMBER 13, 2021 • By Jordan Elgrably
Reflections on Abu Dhabi and the U.A.E. at 50

Reflections on Abu Dhabi and the U.A.E. at 50

The powerhouse United Arab Emirates has just fêted 50 years as a country, and 10-year resident Deborah Williams...

DECEMBER 13, 2021 • By Tiyo Attallah Salah-El
The (Afghan) Writer Who Sold His Book Collection to Pay the Rent

The (Afghan) Writer Who Sold His Book Collection to Pay the Rent

Selling off your beloved book collection to pay the rent hurts, but it beats starving or being out...

DECEMBER 13, 2021 • By weglot-editor
Objective Brits, Subjective Syrians

Objective Brits, Subjective Syrians

"What a British person imagined Syria or the Middle East to be ... was more important than what...

DECEMBER 6, 2021 • By Rana Haddad
Sudden Journeys: The Villa Salameh Bequest

Sudden Journeys: The Villa Salameh Bequest

Jenine Abboushi inaugurates a new monthly column with a story about a prominent family that lost everything in...

NOVEMBER 29, 2021 • By Jenine Abboushi
From Jerusalem to a Kingdom by the Sea

From Jerusalem to a Kingdom by the Sea

Rana Asfour reviews a new memoir about the legendary Dajani family, charged by a Turkish sultan with watching...

NOVEMBER 29, 2021 • By TMR
Syria Through British Eyes

Syria Through British Eyes

British-Syrian novelist Rana Haddad compares her experience growing up in Syria with the way people beyond Syria's borders...

NOVEMBER 29, 2021 • By Rana Haddad
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