Most of the people in the pictures seemed amenable to being photographed. Or they pretended to be. Motionless for minutes, they stared vacantly at their camera-wielding predators, likely unaware the images would be used to justify colonial subjugation and... See more
Ninguno de los aficionados locales a los deportes a quienes conozco desde 1994 mostró mucho interés en la Copa del Mundo. Yo ni siquiera sabía que existía un torneo así o que Chicago estaba entre los anfitriones ese año hasta que un tío de la India me men... See more
None of the local die-hard sports fans in my life back in 1994 expressed much interest in the World Cup. I wasn’t even aware that such a tournament existed or that Chicago was among the hosts that year until an uncle from India gave me and my siblings a s... See more
There were dabke dancers, a juggler and peals of laughter near the school mangled by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood. The Abd Al-Rahman Bin Awf School is no more. Its tattered remnants now serve as a makeshift shelter for disp... See more
Our conversation didn’t last long. The cheers would have drowned out our small talk, and Ahmed Shihab-Eldin and I had to tend to the crowd that swarmed Malcolm London, a young poet and activist who had been cleared of punching a Chicago police officer dur... See more
