Arch of Marcus Aurelius, Tripoli. Photo by Neil Weightman.“Whoever is uprooted, uproots others.” Simone Weil’s wise words to Charles de Gaulle, future president of France, in 1943, with France still u…
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November 30, 2015
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Shelly Sanders is a Canadian novelist who writes historical fiction set in Old Shanghai and the former Soviet Union. Her main characters are Jewish…
Painting by the Iraqi artist Ghassan Faïdi / P65 dessin café 70 x 50 Confinement du printemps 2020 / Reproduced by permission…
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Author’s note: It begins with a chance encounter at an airport and ends with a crash that no one walks away from.…
Melissa Weininger’s Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century (Wayne State University Press, 2023) is a…
Artist Self-Portrait
While war, injustice, and spiritual fatigue continue to poison the air, Yahia Lababidi finds a beauty-infused…
