by Maurice Chammah The call to prayer was not just a reminder of religious extremism. For these elite Egyptians,...

by Maurice Chammah At first I did a double take, seeing the word ‘Weinstein’ in simple block letters one...

By Maurice Chammah Nasser had...wanted the state to protect journalists from the market, but could that be done without...

by Janaki Challa The largest Jewish community in India...are descendents of persecuted Jews from Galilee who were...

by Alex Thurston Teju Cole analyzes the destruction of the shrines by analogy: Mali is premodern Europe; Mali is...

by Maurice Chammah The editors weren’t pleased. It was too complex...It would be easier, they decided, to frame the...

by Irina Papkova For two weeks, Lebanon lived on the knife edge of a sectarian civil war. And here...

By Austin Dacey The Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards was meeting to address “gaps” in...

When Iranian artists Neda Razavipour and Shahab Fotuhi proposed an installation in a downtown Tehran apartment building, the government’s Office of Beautification told...

The annual “Red Mass” for Canadian Catholic lawyers, judges, and legislators sounds like a surprisingly lively event, or at...