April 21, 2017
The recent deadly chemical attack on Syria and the subsequent tomahawk missile retaliation shows no immediate end to the now six-year-long...
Conversations
March 24, 2017
The first of its kind in modern Iraqi literature, Iraq + 100: Stories from a Century After the Invasion , compiles speculative fiction from...
videos
June 27, 2016
“I suspected one could sometimes learn more as a wanderer than as a journalist.” Belén Fernández hitchhiked through Lebanon in 2006 and...
Reviews
April 10, 2016
A caliphate, according to Muhammad Qasim Zaman in the Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World , “symbolizes…the classical history of...
Reviews
March 7, 2016
Kamal Aljafari remembers when Jaffa was transformed into civil war-torn Beirut. Under the direction of Menachem Golan, the production team...
podcast
February 22, 2016
Historians never mentioned the Arabs who took part in the struggle against Franco's fascist forces during the Spanish Civil War. We speak...
blog
August 27, 2015
The exhibition She Who Tells a Story , featuring the work of women photographers from several Arab countries and Iran, is on display at the...
column
June 9, 2015
Molly Crabapple is a 21 st century Renaissance woman. An alluring combination of an artist with big dreams and an unwavering moral compass...
Poetry
June 2, 2015
Editor's Introduction: There is a Zuni story, translated and transcribed by Dennis Tedlock ( Finding the Center , University of Nebraska,...