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Items by Amjad Nasser
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The Gulf ‘Likud’
We called every right-wing Arab trend in the 1980s and 1990s “Likudian”, in reference to the Israeli Likud party, led by Menachem Begin, who crossed over to the Israeli left-wing in the late 1970s without looking back. The label seemed metaphorical or exaggerated, as what did the (reactionary) ruling...
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Death in Aleppo
What power and determination allows human beings to dig through rubble with bare hands, in places that bulldozers cannot reach, in the search for survivors? I do not know, but it happens; I’ve seen it happen. Airstrikes take buildings down to ground level, but willing hands dig for those left...