Category: Syria
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Khalid Khalifa
Interview with Khalid Khalifa by Abdul Rahman Latif. This interview has been edited and reorganized for clarity. Khalid Khalifa is Syria’s leading writer whose novels are held in high esteem around the Arab world. Khalifa’s book, “In Praise of Hatred” (Madih al-karahiya), is about how the lives of one family are affected by the battle between…
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Ghofran Ahmed
The following is an abridged transcript of interviews conducted October 28, November 3, and November 17, 2015 with Ghofran, a young Iraqi woman originally from Baghdad. As sectarianism and violence during the American occupation worsened, Ghofran was forced to leave her Iraqi home in 2007. She moved in Sahnaya, Syria and later to Beirut, Lebanon…
