The Guardian newspaper took me to the opera! I got to attend the opening night of the opera The Death of Klinghoffer, which has stirred up passions here in New York City, as part of a panel of respondents. Below is my take (click here for the original publication): The problem with …
[I’ve been working on this story over the summer and am pleased that it’s now published as the cover story of this week’s issue of The Nation.] *** The Tayba Islamic Center is a small storefront mosque on the southern tip of Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn. Sandwiched between a kitchen-cabinet …
(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 …
I wrote this essay on Islamophobia and “white anxiety” shortly before the November 2012 US election, and it was published in The Cairo …
Here we go again. A preposterous provocation easily manages to ignite fevered protests in Muslim-majority countries around the world, and everyone is …