
“Poisoning ‘the Holy Land.’”
I met Adnan al–Abayyat last November in Kisan, his rural village in the Bethlehem Governorate. Kisan is 11 km southeast of the city of Bethlehem—as the indigenous hooded crow flies. It is a rather longer distance—27.5 km—on the dangerous and…

Patrick Lawrence: Germany in Crisis Part 1 —The Lost Man of Europe
This is the first of four reports on the crises that now beset Germany — what they are, the history that produced them, and how Germans think about finding their way forward once again. I thank Eva–Maria Föllmer–Müller and Karl–Jürgen…

“‘Our lives are worth nothing.’”
A letter from Occupied Palestine. In a dream,I saw myself flying a kite.And I was like the kite—free.But when I woke up to fly it,one of us wasn’t free.—Sabeel 3 APRIL—A text arrived from a friend two weeks ago today,…
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