Immigration
Is the ISIS-Supporting Imam Deportable? WaPo Does Not Ask
The Washington Post (and the FBI) have both reviewed the strange case of a Maryland-based imam who is said to have publicly supported ISIS and ……Read More
Lifestyle
Immigration
How a Dead, Divorced Cuban Can Cause Amnesty for His Ex, Years Later
A public policy that is hard to understand grants legal migration status if an alien (usually a woman but sometimes a man) can argue successfully ……Read More
Immigration
The New Yorker Begins to Open Its Eyes to the Reasons for Trump’s Durable Popularity
The New Yorker magazine has long shown the way for post-national cosmopolitans whose citizen-of-the world sense of moral superiority inclines them to disdain or simply ……Read More
Books
Good Morning, Ladbrokes: Nobel Betting Beyond Adonis and Nawal El Saadawi
This week, ArabLit is officially on #teamngugi. Yet it does seem strange that the betting agency Ladbrokes insists, year after year, that the two representatives of Arabic literature ……Read More
Health
How Post-Its Cured My Ice Cream Obsession
Photo: Courtesy of Kelsey Miller. There’s an old diet trick — you might have seen it in movies — where you cover the refrigerator ……Read More
Books
Blind Spots: A Millennium of Arabic in Translation
This Friday in London, Anton Shammas gives the inaugural annual lecture of the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation: To mark the 10th ……Read More