“Time to leave it all behind — the people, the country, the war — and return to America, cats in tow.”
Arab Spring
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Unearthing the Story: An Interview with Peter Hessler
The New Yorker writer describes his career’s circuitous route, from his start as a struggling fiction writer to becoming a China correspondent, and now the author of a new book about the Arab Spring.
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How the Not Knowing is the Hardest Part
The last time she saw her husband, he was being interrogated by Syrian government officials.
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“Discourse Is a Battleground”
Yusaf Khalil interviews Syrian scholar Yasser Munif about the roots of the Syrian civil war and how the West is trying (and failing) to help.