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“Memory is ephemeral,” Italian author Natalia Ginzburg writes in the preface to her novel Family Lexicon, a mot that inspired this article. "Because books based on reality are often only faint glimpses and fragments of what we have seen and heard," Ginzburg adds. There are no whole stor..

More than half a century has passed since Israel assumed control over the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In the West Bank, there are now nearly 600,000 Israeli settlers, and East Jerusalem has been subsumed into pre-1967 Jerusalem. The Gaza Strip is under a continuous Isr..

It was a combination of several factors. Besides a pure curiosity about a phenomenon difficult to grasp from the outside, as it were, I have an interest in the evolution and broader impact of Salafi Islam.

All the anomalies of authoritarianism in contemporary Turkey seem telescoped, or short circuited in Istanbul’s “Palaces of Justice” (Adalet Sarayı). One of these “palaces” is on the Anatolian side in Kartal, and two in Europe, in Çağlayan and Bakırköy.

Text and Photos by Heba Khamis
Translated by Eman Hashim

Whether as a revolutionary activist chanting at protests or as an attorney advocating on behalf of the underprivileged in the courtroom, Mahienour Al-Masry is a strong voice defending social justice and fighting polic..

Jeanette Feghali, known to millions across the world as Sabah, died last week at the age of 87.  By the time of her death, she had been a star for almost seven decades.

Sabah began her career while still a teenager, movin..

Never in recent history have officials, commentators, and even political activists spent so much time parsing the meaning of a handful of words—notably, “coup”, “revolution”, and “democratic legitimacy.” The quality of magical thinking inherent in much of the discussion is striking. It is most s..

They want their homeland? They should fight for it.
-- Ali Khaled, father of Leila Khaled, 1950s

With the US embroiled in Afghanistan’s endless theater, the debate around insurgencies has once more taken hold. In 2007, Jeffery Record’s ..

A bit of conventional wisdom making the rounds among Egyptian revolutionaries is they succeeded not only in bringing down their hated dictator, Hosni Mubarak, but also in taking down other despised figures associated with the regime. This includes technocrats, like ex-Minister of the Interi..