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on : Monday, 20 May, 2013

Awakening Memories

It is no secret that Israeli society consists of a number of diverse ethnic communities. Culturally, artist Dor Guez—who was born in Jerusalem to Palestinian Christian and Tunisian Jewish parents—is a strange mix, although it is easy to forget that he also embodies the various human migrations that led to the creation of the state of Israel as it is today. Guez’s Palestinian Christian grandmother and her family were forced out of their hometown of Jaffa during the 1948 war. They reloca...

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Amy Assad
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on : Tuesday, 23 Apr, 2013

Holding Hope Hostage

Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim is all thumbs navigating his way around his new iPhone. This modern device contrasts sharply with the traditional cassock he is wearing, but it helps him stay in touch with his community in Syria and the wider diaspora. After an impromptu hour-long interview in London during what was supposed to be a short coffee visit, he reminds me that I can email him if I need anything more. Then he mumbles that he is sleepy. Ibrahim is an ordinary man—an ordi...

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Amy Assad
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on : Friday, 29 Mar, 2013

People by Numbers

During the ten years since the US-led invasion of Iraq, we have been bombarded by statistics that purport to indicate levels of progress in the country. Statistics and numbers take...

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Amy Assad
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on : Saturday, 16 Mar, 2013

A Quiet Town

Glancing over the headlines about Yemen today, one might be forgiven for thinking the country is an amalgamation of ‘Al-Qaeda,’ ‘radical,’ ‘drone strikes,’ ‘US,’ ...

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Amy Assad
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on : Saturday, 22 Dec, 2012

A Bishop’s View from Aleppo

For Christians all over the world, December is usually a time for celebration. For Christians in Syria—and indeed for all Syrians—life remains as challenging as it has been...

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on : Tuesday, 4 Dec, 2012

Chipping Away at the Copts

A large, rolled-up Arabic rug lies hazardously across the front entrance of St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox church in Kensington, London. Ahead, smiling and embracing, groups of men a...

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Amy Assad
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on : Saturday, 24 Nov, 2012

Intervention Advocate

Twenty months into the uprising in Syria, with the death toll reportedly exceeding 37,000 and news reports showing that violence in the country is spiraling even further out of...

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Amy Assad
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on : Friday, 2 Nov, 2012

Trappings of Oil

Tucked away in Maddox Street, a strangely quiet side road wedged behind London’s busy Regent Street, is the Selma Feriani Gallery; currently home to the first London solo exhibit...

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Amy Assad
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on : Wednesday, 8 Aug, 2012

Hurdles and other Obstacles

Entering the exhibition Hey’Ya: Arab Women in Sport at Sotheby’s in London, I stop by a photograph of Qatari player Amal Mohammed Awad. Hair under a headscarf, she is clut...

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Amy Assad
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on : Monday, 25 Jun, 2012

One Step forward?

Cheers of jubilation and chants of "Down with military rule!" from Muslim Brotherhood supporters pulsed through Cairo's Tahrir Square yesterday as it was announced that the par...

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