5:30 a.m. I emerge into consciousness—hazy, alert, terrified by the thought that in the three hours of fragile sleep I managed, I may have lost a friend back home. Israel has launched a sudden and..
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Watching Iran: Paralyzed at Dawn
5:30 a.m. I emerge into consciousness—hazy, alert, terrified by the thought that in the three hours of fragile sleep I managed, I may have lost a friend back home. Israel has launched a sudden and staggering military assault on Iran. The full scope of the operation remains unknown, but the target is unmistakable: the strike began in the heart of Tehran, a city of over ten million people—seventeen million including its vast sprawl. For many of us, this is the moment we’ve feared for decades: that the shadow of war, long hovering at the edge of imagination, would one day cross the threshold into reality. Now it has.
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Call for Targeted Academic Boycott of Turkey
[This call was released by Academics for Peace on 7 June 2017. The statement is also available in Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese (Mandarin), French, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kurdish (Sorani), Kurdi..
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Cancer, Ethnicity, and the Bodies of Others
For Maral G. H. (2004-2016)
Cancer, I have learned, insists on the visibility of ethnic belonging.[1]Cancer shrinks the topography of one’s worl..
