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Reporting

The Young Turks of Prizren

January 9, 2016 by Alex Shams

Originally published on Road and Kingdoms on Jan. 9, 2016. Less than 20 years ago, the streets of the southern Kosovo town of Prizren were filled with military checkpoints and paths

Opinion

Sacralizing a Shia Public Sphere: Muharram Commemorations Across Iran

December 1, 2015 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ajam Media Collective on December 1, 2015. The following is a photo essay by Ali Karjoo-Ravary, a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Opinion Pakistan

Exhausted Geographies: Mapping the Dream of Pakistan in the Streets of Karachi

November 12, 2015 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ajam Media Collective on November 12, 2015. In Karachi, the dream of Pakistan – in all of its glory, misgivings, failures, and triumphs – has become reality.

Featured Israel Palestine Reporting

Learning the Language of Jesus Christ

November 2, 2015 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Roads and Kingdoms on November 2, 2015. Just a few hundred feet west of the church built atop the site where the Christian faithful believe Jesus was

Featured Palestine Reporting

The Ghosts of Christmas Past

August 18, 2015 by Alex Shams

The city of Bethlehem wants the world to know it’s more than a Biblical theme park.

Israel Opinion Palestine

Killings reveal link between homophobia, anti-Arab racism

August 15, 2015 by Alex Shams

Originally published on the Washington Blade on Aug. 15, 2015. Shira Banki, a 16-year-old girl who was stabbed during a Jerusalem Pride march, succumbed to her injuries on Aug. 2,

Palestine Reporting

Bethlehem centre revives iconic Palestinian Christian craft

July 30, 2015 by Alex Shams

Icon school creates opening for local artists to tap into ancient skills and challenge cheap tourist-targeting imports

Palestine Reporting

City of the Moon

July 21, 2015 by Alex Shams

Originally published on The New Inquiry. In Jericho, Palestinians find a resort from their occupations At the edge of the Judean Hills, after the mountains of Palestine have calmed themselves

Palestine Reporting

Concrete tent embodies contradictions of Palestine refugee life

June 28, 2015 by Alex Shams

Originally published on Ma’an News Agency on June 28, 2015. A newly constructed concrete tent in the Duheisha refugee camp south of Bethlehem in the West Bank. (MaanImages/Alex Shams) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an)

Reporting

Nablus is Nablus

June 25, 2015 by Alex Shams

Originally published on Mashallah News and PalTrips. Nablus conjures up many images in the minds of those who know this city well. For some, this “Little Damascus” is defined by