topic: war
January 5, 2015
Editor's Introduction Nora Al-Badri has never been to Iraq. But she has connected with her father’s home country via the Internet—not over...
Literature
November 12, 2014
Was I ever young enough to want to go out on New Year’s Eve? Or even to want to just stay up until midnight so that the new year wouldn’t...
Art
November 4, 2014
Graphic artists Thomas Henseler and Susanne Buddenberg have collaborated on a reimagination of the 28 year partition of Berlin to produce...
Poetry
October 17, 2014
Editor's Introduction The 17th Century Kabbalist, Nathan of Gaza, speculated that before the world came into being, there were, in the...
Art
September 30, 2014
A woman named Muna carries a goose across the border between Syria and Jordan. She has just watched soldiers execute four of her children,...
Reportage
September 23, 2014
(translated from the French by Armelle English) I have been traveling widely in the Ukrainian Donbass, the contested region of Eastern...
Literature
September 18, 2014
The resting place of the dead is respected here. Straight lines, manicured grass, clean concrete and untouched graves. Everything has its...
blog
August 28, 2014
Last week, the U.S. government announced that it had completed destruction of Syria’s declared chemical weapons stockpile. This complex...
Conversations
August 14, 2014
Anna Badkhen's lyrical narratives, filed from war zones all over the world, never skimp on important historical context; she tells the...
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