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In Palestine and Kurdistan, promising experiments in self-determination draw on the region’s pluralist history.
From street demonstrations to song, dance, film, and poetry, women are advancing a long legacy of struggle against authoritarianism in Iran.
Far from a metaphysical battle between fanaticism and tolerance, the Rushdie affair exemplifies the marketization of hurt sentiments.
Noam Chomsky on lies, crimes, and savage capitalism.
A recent Foreign Affairs article gets history wrong and obscures a robust Palestinian discourse.
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