Palestinian Literature and the “Recurring Nightmare” of Occupation
A conversation with Karim Kattan, whose short story “Burial at Sea” was published in our Fiction issue. A previous story, “Salt Air,” translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman, was published in our Promises issue.
Illegal Alien
“I was up against two opposing demands: his longing to be pronounced a man, and the government’s preference that he was not.”
Arrested and Rearrested
Since October 7, Palestinian women in the West Bank have experienced increasing intimidation, imprisonment and violence.
Crimes of Starvation
In conflicts around the world, food and hunger are used as tools of war. What's the role of international law in addressing human-inflicted starvation?
Elevating Lebanese Voices
A conversation with Justin Salhani, whose reporting on the reverberations of the Israel-Hamas war in Lebanon was published in State of the World.
The American Origins of Israel’s Armament Campaign
How Kahanism infiltrated the political mainstream.
Waiting for Nasrallah
The secretary-general of Hezbollah has not yet delivered a clear intent to open up a second front in the war in Gaza. But a wider war is still possible.
The Failure of International Law
A conversation with legal scholar Itamar Mann about the war in Israel and Palestine.
Poems from “You Can Be the Last Leaf”
“Lovers Swap Language,” “We Could Die in a Traffic Accident” and “I Suffer a Phobia Called Hope”
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