My Life Among the Gatekeepers
Ammiel Alcalay writes of the gatekeepers who have affected every aspect of his writing, cultural, and public life.
Ammiel Alcalay writes of the gatekeepers who have affected every aspect of his writing, cultural, and public life.
When religious fanatics in Lebanon aren’t fighting one another, they make the best war comrades against modernity, secularism, and freedom of expression.
Sarah realizes that gatekeepers come in all shapes and forms — over the radio, at the end of an email, in government and the person right next to us...
Gatekeepers of Baghdad decide who lives, who dies, during 2019 protests against high unemployment, state corruption, and poor services.
Syrian filmmaker Soudade Kaadan is a jury member of the 81st Venice Film Festival, and the only Arab woman director to have won twice in Venice.
A Gaza-based writer captures the intense and harrowing experiences of individuals enduring the brutal realities of genocide.
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When a mother loses her child she can become inconsolable, living a desolate life, as she works for his return.
Poet Saba Keramati explores multiraciality and exile alongside her uniquely American origin as the only child of political refugees from China and Iran.
Salvadoran poet Alexandra Lytton Regalado presents two poems from her latest collection, "Relinquenda," a National Poetry Series winner.
The essence of Palestinian resilience, survival, and resistance is rooted in dispossession, as noted by Dana El Saleh.
In this excerpt from Badar Salem's "Deserted as a Crowded Room," Majdal falls in love with a West Bank resistance fighter who winds up in solitary confinement.
A young poet and graduate of a Gaza university that is in ruins, Sahar Rabah looks forward to the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Rutgers.