An Athens native returns to Greece after a 20-year sojourn across the Mediterranean and Middle East, covering turmoil...
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The ultimate heroine of Iranian poetry, a poet of great audacity and extraordinary talent, is Forugh Farrokhzad.
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Riding the bus down memory lane, a Palestinian American scholar of digital culture at MIT recalls her time...
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15 APRIL 2022 • By
Cultural anthropologist Matthew Canfield explains the socio-legal basics of food sovereignty and sustainable farming.
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From Leonard Cohen to Apollo and Daphne to French philosopher Jean-Lun Nancy, Arie Akkermans-Amaya looks at the influences...
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Megan Marshall on living with things lost in the Caldor Fire and revisiting Henry David Thoreau.
15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By
Kurdish writer Ava Homa on how statelessness, trauma and political exile shaped her novel "Daughters of Smoke and...
15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By
Historian and thinker Ilan Pappe deconstructs three problematic myths about Gaza and Hamas in this except from his...
14 JULY 2021 • By
Critic Ziad Suidan meditates on the meaning of the labyrinth and the walls that can separate us but...
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