August 14, 2026
A Diasporic Requiem: Watching Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei’s Funeral in America
In the summer of 1989, my mother and I drove to participate in Ayatollah Khomeini’s public funeral. His body was displayed in a refrigerated glass case sitting atop an elevated platform in what was then a vast empty lot, which later became the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Mosque. The heat of that summer day was intense, and the sheer size of the crowd was astonishing.
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August 4, 2026
30 More SWANA Books to Read in 2026
by Samia Saliba
2026 continues to be an exciting year for SWANA literature, with many stunning debuts, new releases and translations from longtime favorites, and experiments in new genres.
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June 26, 2026
The No-State Solution: Histories and Realities
If a call for a “no-state solution” is theoretically valid anywhere, the current situation in Palestine provides us with empirical verification that humanity benefits more from the absence of the state than from its existence.
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