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Un divan a Tunis

Tunisians On the Couch in “Arab Blues”

In East Jerusalem, Palestinian Youth Struggle for Freedom

Breaking Bread

“Breaking Bread, Building Bridges”: a Film Review

Cal State Poly, Pomona Professor Accused of Anti-Semitism

Cal State Poly, Pomona Professor Accused of Anti-Semitism

Reassessing the Legacy and Power of DC Hardcore

Reassessing the Legacy and Power of DC Hardcore

Maria Armoudian

Interview: Maria Armoudian on “Lawyers Without Borders”

human rights

Gitmo and Abu Ghraib, Infamous Symbols of US Human Rights Violations

This is not a movie

The Semantics of Gaza, War and Truth

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Wasta on Steroids: Financialized Housing Violates Human Rights

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“I was a French Muslim: Memories of an Algerian Freedom Fighter”

Armenian

An Armenian and An Armenian

the man behind the white guitar

Gatekeepers of Truth: A filmmaker, a guitarist, their friendship and her run for governor

The Revolution Sees its Shadow: 10 Years Later

Racialization and the US Census in Trump Era

The other F-word on history, memory and experiments in Armenian-Turkish conciliation

Mary Mazzio Discusses Her Documentary on Child Sex Trafficking, the CDA, and Backpage

Catholic Worker walks out the Gospels in secular San Francisco

ANALYSIS: ‘Reorientalism’ is finding a new East

Armenians being deported from Turkey during the Armenian genocide, circa 1915. Narek/Flickr. Some rights reserved

Another Asia Minor disaster

Healing Diabetes the Native American Way

UCLA Doctors Revive the Ancient Technology of Sound Healing

Immigration authorities raiding a shuttle business suspected of being used for human trafficking across the border in Tucson, Arizona, on April 15, 2010. (Photo: Monica Almeida / The New York Times)

The Not-So-Free Market: How Consumerism Fuels Human Trafficking

Ancient Greek Mythology at the Heart of Contemporary Filmmaker Dina Demetrius

Film Review: The Tree

Prominent Turkish Journalists Imprisoned in Crackdown

Le Quattro Volte

Blessed are the wagers of just war?

From Bussing to Rodney King, L.A.’s Race Politics Created Fishbone

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone

Alexia’s Musical Odyssey Brings Her to Hollywood

Film Review: “Outside the Law”, a film by Rachid Bouchareb

Ilia Darlin: The “European Answer” to Lady Gaga is Greek

Film Review: Scorsese-Greek Collaboration, “Brides”

California Passes Landmark Anti-Human Trafficking Law

Film Review: Masquerades

Looking back at the 13th Annual Arpa International Film Festival

Film Review: Wah Do Dem

Book review: Jailhouse Lawyers

Interview with Paul Watson Guardian Angel of the High Seas

Ageless Wisdom for a Changing World, or… How to Change the World the Toltec Way An Interview with Don Miguel Ruiz & Don Jose Ruiz

Meeting with A Remarkable Man: Interview with Khen Rinpoche