I wrote a review essay for The Progressive on Phil Klay’s short story collection Redeployment and Sinan Antoon’s novel The Corpse Washer. My essay’s not online, but you should all subscribe to The Progressive anyway. It’s a fine magazine with a long history (since 1909). My essay begins this way: In …
(This was published at The Intercept on Feb. 12, 2015.) I didn’t know Yusor Mohammad, Deah Shaddy Barakat or Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha — the victims of Craig Stephen Hicks’ shooting spree in Chapel Hill, North Carolina – but I recognize them. Anyone who has spent time in American Muslim communities would, and …
The Guardian newspaper took me to the opera! I got to attend the opening night of the opera The Death of Klinghoffer, which …
[I’ve been working on this story over the summer and am pleased that it’s now published as the cover story of this …
(I wrote this comment for The Nation) There is a grocery store near my apartment in Brooklyn called the NSA Food Markets …
The sentencing on June 23 of three Al Jazeera journalists, each to at least seven years in prison, by an Egyptian court …
Here’s the problem with The Square, Jehane Noujaim’s documentary about Egypt. Because it decides to forgo explaining all but the most basic …
Things I learned from watching Zero Dark Thirty 1. It’s fine, really, to wear an Ann Taylor suit to your first torture …
I wrote a quick response to Israel’s attack on Syria for The Progressive magazine. It can be found here (click on post …
I was in Egypt during late November and early December. I wrote two short pieces about what’s happening there. They can be …