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This article provides intimate insights into workers’ everyday experiences of inhabiting Jordan’s dormitory migrant labor regime. It uses illustrations derived from participatory mapping and drawing workshops with garment workers of diverse nationalities who live and labor in Jordan’s two larges..

In Nadine Labaki’s new film Capernaum, the radio-transmitted voice of the incarcerated child protagonist tells his parents–and the Lebanese public, by extension–to stop having children, since they cannot provide them with a respectable life.

[The following statement was issued by Human Rights Watch on 10 October 2012.] 

Lebanon’s judiciary should investigate and prosecute any army and intelligence officials responsible for the beating and serious abuse..

From that moment, like the maniyan fly, an unknown fear began to envelop my mind. An irrational doubt began to grip me, a feeling that this journey was not leading me to the Gulf life that I had been dreaming about and craving for. The Gulf I had learned about from so many people was n..

As we prepare to land at Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport, I grudgingly wear my abaya and wrap the headscarf around my neck. A few Saudi men in jeans and t-shirts rush to the bathrooms and change into their long, w..