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
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
