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Jan 14, 2025 | 
thenation.com | Hussein Omar
Books & the Arts / January 14, 2025 Hallways of Dislocation The poetry of Fady Joudah. Fady Joudah’s Poetry of DislocationIn his new volume of poetry, […], the poet, translator, and ER doctor explores Palestinians’ experiences of exile and displacement as well as the difficulties of healing amid the protracted and ongoing Nakba. Ad Policy Illustration by Andrea Ventura. This article appears in the February 2025 issue.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
worldofinteriors.com | Hussein Omar
I had never expected to learn of the demolition of the tomb of my mother and that of at least eight generations of ancestors via Twitter. But one night last winter, I came upon a photograph of my mother’s grave in a tweet that was tagged #SaveEgyptsHeritage. I scrambled to look for more information online, but to no avail. It was late in Cairo, and the calls I made to my father went unanswered. I couldn’t sleep that night.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
parapraxismagazine.com | Hussein Omar
The 1936 Arab revolt would prompt the design, testing, and implementation of some of the most violent measures hitherto used in colonial territories. Human shields, collective punishment, and the use of concentration camps were imported as counterinsurgency techniques from elsewhere in the British Empire and perfected during the three years of the Arab revolt. This period set the blueprint for Palestinian resistance—a combination of boycott and armed struggle—for decades to come.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Hussein Omar
Thank you for reading The NationWe hope you enjoyed the story you just read, just one of the many incisive, deeply-reported articles we publish daily. Now more than ever, we need fearless journalism that shifts the needle on important issues, uncovers malfeasance and corruption, and uplifts voices and perspectives that often go unheard in mainstream media.
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Oct 7, 2023 | 
frieze.com | Hussein Omar
I saw Bread and Puppet Theater’s most recent show in San Antonio, Texas. This city was the former home of US Air Force serviceman Aaron Bushnell, whose fatal self-immolation on February 25 this year, just a few days prior to the performance, recalled the horrifying spectacle of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc’s protest in 1963 against the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Hussein Omar
Guest EssaySept. 25, 2023, 1:00 a.m. ETA woman cleans tombs in Cairo’s City of the Dead cemetery.Credit...Asmaa Waguih/ReutersBy Hussein OmarMr. Omar is a writer and historian. My mother, who died suddenly when I was a teenager, is buried alongside her ancestors in a historic mausoleum in the area of Cairo known as the City of the Dead. It’s the oldest continuously used Muslim cemetery in the world, and its history traces back to the seventh century.
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
worldofinteriors.com | Harriet Thorpe |Hussein Omar |Ariadne Fletcher |Ginny Davies
In Sarasota, Florida, a purple theatre with a scalloped concrete roof sits amid landscaped coastal parkland overlooking the Sarasota Bay. The Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall opened in 1970; its design (and singular hue) was inspired by a shell that washed up on the shores of the Sea of Japan and was retrieved by Frank Lloyd Wright’s widow, Olgivanna. Said shell can be found in a vitrine in the theatre’s foyer, a relic of the architecture’s origin story.
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
worldofinteriors.com | Grace McCloud |Hussein Omar |Ariadne Fletcher |Ginny Davies
Before World War I, Rollo Dunford Wood tells me, the sight of vivid bow-top vardos trundling down Britain’s potholed lanes would have been fairly common. ‘It was the golden age of caravans,’ he says, pouring scorching coffee heated on an old-fangled enamel stove in his Oxfordshire workshop.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
worldofinteriors.com | Ellie Pithers |Hussein Omar |Grace McCloud |Harriet Thorpe
Saunter down Paris’s Rue Meslay and you’ll quickly find yourself in the presence of a ‘sapeur’. TheCongolese term for a dandy, it refers to a flamboyant style of dress that originated when 19th-century French colonisers arrived in Congo. In Paris today, its beat comprises this street on the outskirts of the modish Marais, filled with head-turning tailoring shops.
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Aug 13, 2023 | 
madamasr.com | Hussein Omar
Just when history, we were told, had allegedly ended in the 1990s, Sinéad O’Connor, icon and iconoclast, insisted on making it. By singing or swearing, shouting or whispering, this uncompromising force always put herself at stake when the lives of people who couldn’t were. Her putatively prophetic wisdom and her angelic, even otherworldly, beauty ironically made her ripe for canonization in a world in which the public is all too keen to turn celebrities into pay-for-play saints.
