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
I remember chicken schnitzel and near beer printed on restaurant menus alongside ghormeh sabzi and zereshk polo. The ruins of Persepolis, horse-drawn carriages and a desolate pair of large bronze riding boots.jpg) severed from its owner — a colossus statu... See more
Mahdi Ali Raheem’s smile seemed to stretch as wide as the arches of the buildings surrounding the open-air courtyard where we stood inside the sand-colored, 800-year-old Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. Delighted to hear that some American visitors,... See more
I don’t want to give far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer any ideas. But I do wonder if she’ll soon proclaim that Nick Reiner was wearing a keffiyeh and a “Free Palestine” T-shirt when he allegedly killed his actor-director father, Rob Reiner, and p... See more
All Jessica Kumar has to do is utter a certain word to win the approval of millions of South Asians.
But the millennial white woman has done much more to impress desis than possess the ability to say “namaste” without making us wince or snicker.
Kumar’s H... See more
