Ursula Lindsey
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
Senior Correspondent at Al-Fanar Media
Journalist and book reviewer. Egypt, Morocco, now Jordan. Write for @nybooks and @the_point_mag. Co-host @bulaqbooks podcast.
Articles
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Dec 26, 2024 |
nybooks.com | Ursula Lindsey
On December 12, at the Jaber Border Crossing in northwest Jordan, I watched a small crowd of Syrians hurry onto a bus that was taking them to their home country. There are more than a million Syrian refugees in Jordan. Four days after the toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad, there was no mass return, just a trickle of travelers, many of whom were headed back to visit relatives. Most Syrians, one man told me, are still “hesitant and afraid” to return.
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Nov 13, 2024 |
theideasletter.org | Ursula Lindsey
Last month, on the evening of October 2, 2024, my 12-year-old son and I rushed out into our garden in Amman. Like most residents of Jordan’s capital, we watched a barrage of Iranian missiles, headed toward Israel, get intercepted above the city. The missiles had been launched in retaliation for Israel’s attacks on the Lebanese armed movement Hezbollah and for the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s political leader, in Tehran in July.
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Jul 25, 2024 |
nybooks.com | Ursula Lindsey
In Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost, an intrepid group of Palestinians stages Shakespeare’s tale of usurpation, suspicion, and revenge.
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Jun 13, 2024 |
thepointmag.com | Toufic Haddad |Ursula Lindsey
This is the second installment of “Preserving Gaza,” a series of interviews with Palestinian scholars and writers about particular aspects of Gaza’s history, heritage and cultural life, much of which has been destroyed by the Israeli siege and bombardment since October 7th. You can read the first installment, a conversation with Atef Alshaer about literature and writing from Gaza, here. Toufic Haddad is a social scientist and political analyst.
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May 23, 2024 |
thepointmag.com | Ursula Lindsey
Ifirst discovered the Egyptian writer, poet and scholar Iman Mersal through a little book called How to Mend: Motherhood and Its Ghosts. I’d heard of Mersal in Egypt, where she is from, and where my husband and I had lived for many years. Several friends there had spoken admiringly of her. By the time I read her book we had moved to Morocco. I had traded a rich social and professional network for life in a city that was calmer, healthier and better suited to raising a child.
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