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Aleppo Is Us

By Ashley Makar | September 11, 2016

With the recent “What is Aleppo?” gaffe by Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, the news cycle has long moved on from the child whose image quickly became an icon of…

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Dear Cruelest Month: Spring Isn’t Arab

By Jennifer Mackenzie | April 24, 2015

Once upon a time we lay in bed trying to imagine what shelling sounded like. We being me and the man I loved. Ah, those early days of my Orientalism…

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Why Are You Laughing?

By Jennifer Mackenzie | January 27, 2015

Two ways of looking at “Je suis Charlie.”

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Sea Accounting

By Jennifer Mackenzie | July 15, 2014

Navigating fear, family, and Syria’s failing insurrection.

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Happy New Year from KtB!

By KtBniks | December 31, 2013

Herewith, in the spirit of the season, a highly subjective New Year’s Eve countdown of our favorite KtB moments of 2013. 10 Illustrated posts by Communicant Mary Valle. 9 New…

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Syrian Refugees in Jordan

By Becky Garrison | December 12, 2012

When I first traveled to Jordan in 2007 for ten days as part of a contingency of religion writers, I  became aware of how Jordan became a place of welcome…

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Every Place is Khalidiya

By Jennifer Mackenzie | December 10, 2012

A trip to the Damascus grave of Dr. Ali Shariati, revolutionary, as the shelling in Homs, Syria began.