Memoir
Memoir
Beirut Fragments
An account of Israel’s 1982 bombing campaign echoes through the decades.
Jean Said Makdisi July 14, 2026
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A Body That Outlived Its Heart
The grief that at first flowed with my tears now has calcified in my chest with no release.
Abdullah Hany Daher April 15, 2026
Memoir
Ramadan’s Rhythm of Refusal
In Gaza, the holy month reminds us that loss is not time’s only path.
Abdullah Hany Daher March 4, 2026
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After the Rain
In Gaza, rain once meant renewal. Now it is only a reminder of the slow violence we are living under.
Abdullah Hany Daher January 22, 2026
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Crying Is Not Surrender
In wartime, expressions of sorrow are pushed away. But our grief is sacred. It demands to be felt.
Abdullah Hany Daher December 22, 2025
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Alphabets on the Sand
In Gaza, language is insufficient to describe the magnitude of our loss, but I write anyway.
Abdullah Hany Daher November 12, 2025
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Process of Punishment
During my bid for clemency last year, it was clear state officials didn’t care about my rehabilitation—or about helping the victim’s family heal.
Christopher Blackwell October 21, 2025
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A Time That Refuses to Pass
While the world marks two years since October 7th, 2023, those of us in Gaza have been living inside one long night.
Abdullah Hany Daher October 8, 2025
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A Map to a Place That No Longer Exists
In this city, there are thousands upon thousands of us, each carrying their own coordinates to somewhere that can no longer be found.
Abdullah Hany Daher September 5, 2025
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The Betrayal of Light
At the precipice of each instant, two voices speak to me. One says, “You survived.” The other, “It will begin again.”
Abdullah Hany Daher August 12, 2025
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Gluttony
In an excerpt from her new essay collection Naked, a burlesque performer considers the complications of desire.
Fancy Feast October 5, 2023
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In the Hole
Five incarcerated men on the minute-by-minute experience of solitary confinement.
Christopher Blackwell, Aaron Edward Olson, Antoine Davis, Raymond Williams, and Jonathan Kirkpatrick April 20, 2023
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Flu, 1918
Remembering a year of hell and devastation—the year of the Spanish flu.
Rose Riegelhaupt June 14, 2021
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At Hutto
A lawyer reflects on his experience meeting with asylum seekers in a Texas detention center to prepare them for their credible fear interviews.
Michael Lieberman November 2, 2020
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The Bookworm
When Yiddish books are destroyed, who will miss them?
Isaac Brosilow July 13, 2020
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Some Notes on Jewish Lesbian Identity
“A poor Jew trying to climb out of her class learns to associate her lower-classness with her Jewishness (also her femaleness).”
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz July 6, 2020
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Honoring the Dead From a Distance
A socially distant taharah is an oxymoron that underscores the particular agony of this moment.
Jordana Rosenfeld May 27, 2020
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Immersion
Finding strength in brokenness after a traumatic trip to Israel
Kathleen Rice-Guter December 16, 2019
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An Infinite Deal
Blocking the Damascus Gate on Jerusalem Day.
Ari Shahn June 5, 2019
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A Chaste Piece of Ass
Performing womanhood onstage and off.
Shayna Goodman April 18, 2019
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Notes from the Underground
An overnight stay in the Vilna Ghetto’s newest attraction.
Menachem Kaiser November 26, 2018
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Transitions in Jewish Time: A Trans Writer Visits the Mikveh
“Going to the mikveh meant giving my body, as it was, a place to be loved and called to holiness.”
Jayce Koester June 12, 2018
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“Three More Pieces”
“I don’t recall that those colorful brochures from Israel, sent to Russian Jews like my family, mentioned the Palestinians.”
Sasha Senderovich May 17, 2018
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(Re)Writing Remembrance
Two grandchildren of Holocaust survivors exchange letters on making art and meaning from the Holocaust.
Maia Ipp and Arielle Angel April 17, 2018
