Eli Sharabi’s Hostage, the first memoir of captivity in Gaza in the aftermath of Oct. 7, appeared in Israel in May, just four months after his release; the English translation was published in the U.S

Green is the colour Kareem remembers most. In Rafah, the southern Gaza city where he grew up, there were green fields, farms and countryside. He remembers it being very calm and everything from his sc

My innocent son didn ’t stand a c hance against those evil twins

Naomi Greenaway on why the Manchester synagogue attack felt both shocking and predictable

Watching the beautiful young woman glide down the aisle in New York, Sally Becker couldn’t help but reflect on the day she first met the bride, Selma Handzar. It was 1993 in east Mostar in the midst o

MICHELE RUSPOLI felt a little less agitated, now that he was inside the library, but all around was evidence of the flood. Books had been laid out haphazardly on pieces of matting, all leather-bound,