This essay examines how grieving for Palestine is policed in classrooms, newsrooms, and across borders, revealing the cost...
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Four artists choose their animals, birds and fish as inspiration, cautionary tale, or metaphor.
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London-based Iraqi playwright Hassan Abdulrazak enthuses on the 2023 Shubbak theatre arts extravaganza, June 23-July 9.
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Rusha Rafeek interviews graphic memoirist Malaka Gharib about her Arab American coming of age story.
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Salma Ahmad Caller reflects on curating a unique museum-quality exhibition of postcards and objects orientalizing women
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Winner of the 2022 PEN/Faulkner award, novelist Rabih Alameddine tells an essential story from his Beirut childhood.
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Artist and writer Micaela Amateau Amato uses art and words to create unique ways of transmogrifying the world.
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