The Worlds We Inhabit: Home: New Arabic Poems
These writers expand the meaning of the word home by virtue of their lives and their writing.
...moreThese writers expand the meaning of the word home by virtue of their lives and their writing.
...moreThese poems present a challenge to the typically imposed strictures of ownership, narrative, and solution.
...moreZaina Arafat discusses her debut novel, YOU EXIST TOO MUCH.
...moreEach poem opens a window into cities and vocabularies of exile.
...moreComfort and memory and grief commingled in the dish.
...moreNicole Krauss discusses her new novel Forest Dark, provoking questions about reality with her work, and trusting readers to think for themselves.
...moreNathan Englander talks about his new novel, Dinner at the Center of the Earth, the experience of being interviewed, and why he believes books can save lives.
...moreNarratives like this one complicate and humanize America’s simplistic view of Arab cultures, toppling the flimsy idea that Arab people are intractably Other.
...moreWhat if I said: while people still believe they are white in America, that delusion, and the dream upon which it is founded, needs to be seriously examined.
...moreBen Ehrenreich, author of The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine, discusses oppression, objectivity in journalism, and millennial politics.
...moreHundreds of writers around the world are protesting Saudi Arabia’s death sentence of Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh, accused of promoting atheism in his 2008 book of poetry Instructions Within. As a show of solidarity with the poet, Fayadh’s poetry will be read at 122 events in 44 countries.
...moreManash Bhattacharjee reviews Suvir Kaul’s Of Gardens and Graves today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreWhat are the fundamental differences between telling your own story, telling the story of another, and telling your story about trying to understand someone else’s story?
...moreSmall Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014.
...moreSmall Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014.
...moreSmall Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014.
...moreSmall Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014.
...moreSmall Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014.
...moreSmall Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014.
...moreSmall Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014.
...moreSmall Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014.
...moreSmall Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014.
...moreSmall Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014.
...moreSmall Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014.
...moreTeju Cole spent his summer in Palestine, just before the latest wave of hardship. Viewing the country through his camera lens proved more affecting than not: Photography cannot capture this sorrow, but it can perhaps relay back the facts on the ground. It can make visible graves, olive trees, refuse, roofs, concrete, barricades, and the bodies […]
...moreThe Rumpus talks to David Bezmozgis about Israel, making fact into fiction, politics in novels, and his new book, The Betrayers.
...moreSuzanne Koven speaks to Palestinian American physician and poet Fady Joudah about poetry and politics, text and context, and the marginalization of the “other” in the literary world.
...moreThere’s more violence in Gaza today. Emily Hauser asks a tough question about Israeli claims that its strikes are surgical and aimed at terrorists. The IDF used social media to announce and live-blog the attacks, and to celebrate the killing of Ahmed Al-Jabari. Slate refers to this as “total military transparency,” but it feels more […]
...moreI’m writing to you, Kenneth, because your review and my behavior at the Rialto Cinema are integral parts of the problem in Israel/Palestine. It’s why we both felt so scared and embarrassed: Tears of Gaza implicates us.
...moreAt Guernica, Randa Jarrar writes about this one time when she tried to visit her sister in Palestine and she was deported by Israel. I was so afraid of facing the guards at the airport that I had a difficult time imagining the rest of my trip. I would picture myself walking around Ramallah with […]
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