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Oct
21
2024

Weekly Roundup - 10/21/24

This week: In a new essay, an author writes about her experience of pregnancy in Gaza amidst horror and destruction.

From our recent Florida issue, scholar Gavriel Cutipa-Zorn traces the violent parallel histories of the citrus industries in Israel and Florida and the alliance enabled by these agricultural pursuits.

In a bonus episode of On the Nose, editor-at-large Peter Beinart speaks with author Ta-Nehisi Coates about his new book The Message, what he learned from his time in Israel and the West Bank, and how Israel’s violently discriminatory policies might inform how we think about the transition from being oppressed to being in power.

We are also sending a new poem, “A Building,” written by Ibrahim Nasrallah and translated by Huda Fakhreddine, introduced by culture editor Claire Schwartz.

Essay
“The Only Refuge I Could Offer”
Carrying new life in Gaza, amidst endless loss
Anonymous
Essay
Ghosts of the Groves
In Israel and Florida, violent parallel histories of citrus cultivation have set the stage for a budding agricultural alliance.
Gavriel Cutipa-Zorn
What Ta-Nehisi Coates Saw
Poetry
A Building
“in the cloud of dust that crossed the window, / in the echoes of the bomb that leveled the house next door, / in the sirens of the ambulance that couldn’t reach / the wound.”
Ibrahim Nasrallah