by V. Noah Gimbel | Mar 24, 2011 | Human Rights
Lebanese photojournalist Ramzi Haidar was in Iraq covering the refugee crisis in 2003. Passing the time between assignments, Haidar talked and played with children who were curious about his equipment. Seeing what they saw and how they saw it, he became intrigued by...
by John Feffer | Mar 11, 2011 | War & Peace
Wajahat Ali is a playwright, lawyer, and political commentator. His play, The Domestic Crusaders, made its Off Broadway premiere at the Nuyorican Poets Café in 2009 and was published by McSweeney’s last year. He is currently doing research on Islamophobia...
by Marc Estrin | Feb 23, 2011 | Human Rights
In the midst of cries for freedom in the Middle East and Africa, novelist Ian McEwan claimed the Jerusalem Prize for Literature. The event took place in a sumptuous convention center in a city officially described as the eternal and undivided capital of Israel. In his...
by Blair Murphy | Feb 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
Wendy Navarro is an independent art critic and curator currently based in Barcelona, Spain. Since the mid-1990s, Navarro has been an active curator at the Visual Art Development Center in Havana, Cuba, while working as an editor of the magazine ArteCubano, and...
by Mustapha Tlili | Feb 9, 2011 | Human Rights
As I try to grasp the full meaning of the Tunisian Revolution and to gauge its future, I am looking at my desk where I have spread two issues of The New York Times, both featuring Tunisia on their front pages. The two issues are dated 23 years apart. The first is a...
