Jordan Elgrably

Jan 13, 2025 | sevenstories.com | Jordan Elgrably |Moustafa Bayoumi |Michel Moushabeck |on Jordan Elgrably

- Dispatches from Hossam Madhoun, co-founder of Gaza's Theatre for Everybody, as he survives the post-October 2023 war on Gaza; - Novelist Ahmed Masoud with “Application 39,” a sci-fi short story about a Dystopian bid for the Olympics; - Sara Roy and Ivar Ekeland with “The New Politics of Exclusion: Gaza as Prologue,” an analysis of Israel’s divide and conquer policies of fragmentation; - Historian Ilan Pappé with a review of Tahrir Hamdi’s book, Imagining Palestine, in which heunpacks the...

Jun 7, 2024 | dawnmena.org | Jordan Elgrably

The center of the world, where recorded civilization got its start over 7,000 years ago, can be found in southwestern Asia, in ancient Mesopotamia.

Apr 23, 2024 | juancole.com | Jordan Elgrably |Juan Cole

Excerpted from Bookshop & Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East FictionAvailable from Bookshop & City LightsThe center of the world, where recorded civilization got its start over 7,000 years ago, can be found in southwestern Asia, in ancient Mesopotamia.

Dec 4, 2023 | truthdig.com | Jordan Elgrably

As we were all watching the havoc and devastation being wreaked on Gaza by Israeli warplanes, tanks and troops, and wondering how Palestinians would survive the onslaught to live another day, I asked myself how they managed to live through the conflagrations of 2009, 2014 and 2021. At the same time, a few hours to the north of Gaza, the residents of Beirut are hunkered down, observing the carnage and remembering everything they’ve lived through, including innumerable crises these past few years.