The Conspiracy to Conceal Conspiracies
Every warm-blooded Arab loves a good conspiracy theory — so, it turns out, do many Americans, observes cultural critic Mike Booth.
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The Ignominy of Guantánamo: a History of Torture
Marian Janssen, biographer of a forthcoming volume on the flamboyant American poet Carolyn Kizer, reviews the new memoir by former prisoner Mansoor Adayfi.
Attack the Empire and the Empire Strikes Back: What 20 Years of American Imperialism Has Wrought
Omar El Akkad, author of American War and What Strange Paradise, looks at 20 years of blowback.
20 Years Ago This Month, 9/11 at Souk Ukaz
Hadani Ditmars The commemoration of the 20th anniversary of 9/11 unfolds in televisual real time and yet with a strange sense of suspended animation, as if we’re on a slow… Continue reading 20 Years Ago This Month, 9/11 at Souk Ukaz
Torture Is the Nasty Center of the 9/11 Case at Guantánamo
In our centerpiece this month, Lisa Hajjar takes us inside the war on terror and the dystopia that is Guantánamo.
Islamophobic? How Does it Feel to be a Problem?
Politicians, not terrorists, are the chief instigators of Islamophobic prejudice, and with election it gets worse.
Tamim Ansary’s Afghan-American Story
The story of an Afghan who became an American in the age of Haight-Ashbury.