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  • What to the Arab American Is Election Day

    What to the Arab American Is Election Day

    Lena Tuffaha’s “What to the Arab American Is Election Day” cuts through the noise of US electoral politics to remind us that, more than anything else, today is “A Tuesday in the second November of the Genocide.”

  • Two Poems

    Two Poems

    “Garden Variety” and “Maqluba,” two poems by writer and translator Lena Tuffaha, traverse the brutalized landscapes of Palestinian history as well as the deceptions of Western diplomacy.