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Leaving Aleppo: Crossing Syria’s Most Dangerous Checkpoints

  • Raluca Albu and Raad Rahman
  • September 19, 2016
After four years of ceaseless bombing and brutality, the security of life itself has been reduced in Aleppo to horror, terror, and scarcity of basic human resources.
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Understanding Palmyra

  • Michelle Vider
  • June 6, 2016
Why do we care so much about these ruins, while paying so little attention to the more recent past or present of Syria? Perhaps because we can assimilate these classical…
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The Rumpus Interview with Chris Jennings

  • Lindsay Whalen
  • February 15, 2016
Chris Jennings talks about his new book Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism, incremental reform, Transcendentalists, Shakers, and creating a more perfect future.
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The Rumpus Interview with Meline Toumani

  • Brett Rawson
  • January 8, 2016
Meline Toumani discusses her debut, There Was and There Was Not, the rewards and risks of writing a political memoir, and what it means to approach a divided past and future.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • December 8, 2015
Bookstores in Mumbai, India are losing customers from institutional sales as large buyers turn directly to suppliers, and though 700 existing retailers exist in the city, the last few years…
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On Refugees, and Refusing to Be Scared

  • Brian Spears
  • November 16, 2015
The news that governors are suddenly deciding that they don’t want to welcome Syrian refugees has really driven home to me just how cowardly much of this country is. We…
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Omar Souleymon Pledges to Help Syrian Refugees

  • Liz Wood
  • September 30, 2015
The Syrian-born musician has issued a statement committing himself to helping those fleeing the current crisis in the country, dedicating all of his shows in the immediate future to the…
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This Is a Refugee Camp

  • Martha Bayne
  • September 20, 2015
Zoe and I got an email the other day from Stephen Dau, a writer and expat who’s been living in Belgium the last ten years or so. He wanted to…
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Syrian Refugees Napkin Math

  • Chantal Corcoran
  • September 17, 2015
Cost of the rubber raft meant to transport the Kurdi family from Turkey to Greece  = $4450 Number of Kurdi family members to survive trip = 1 Age of Aylan Kurdi, the…
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How “Good Stories” Make Sense of Crisis

  • Jake Slovis
  • September 15, 2015
For the Guardian, author Gillian Cross explains how fiction might help people to better understand and empathize with the experience of Syrian refugees: It might seem frivolous to be talking about…
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The Families Who Tried to Save Five Hostages

  • P.E. Garcia
  • June 29, 2015
Diane came and hugged me and said, ‘Father, please pray for me that I don’t become bitter. I don’t want to hate.’ For the New Yorker, Lawrence Wright provides a detailed…
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Mystery Maven Memoirs

  • Dinah Fay
  • May 27, 2015
In the wake of the destruction of precious cultural artifacts during the unrest in Iran and Syria, a quiet memoir from the queen of mystery, Agatha Christie, remembers the landscape…
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