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Common Ground

By Harper’s Magazine, on September 13, 2019

Feet of clay: on the troublesome uses of archeology, past and present Read More

Common Ground

By Rachel Poser,

Thirty miles from the coast, on a desert plateau in the Judaean Mountains without natural resources or protection, Jerusalem is not a promising site for one of the world’s great…

Woman with the Beauty Spot

By Asmaa al-Ghoul, Selim Nassib,

From A Rebel in Gaza, published last month by DoppelHouse Press. Translated from the French by Mike Mitchell. Among the memories I brought back home is a meeting with our…

The Trouble with Israel

By Bernard Avishai,

One day this April, two weeks after the Israeli elections gave Benjamin Netanyahu a fourth term as prime minister, the morning after the framework for a nuclear agreement with Iran…

Israel and Palestine

By Bernard Avishai, Dani Dayan, Forsan Hussein, Eva Illouz, Bassim Khoury, Erel Margalit, Danny Rubinstein, Khalil Shikaki,

In June, days before Harper’s contributor Bernard Avishai brought together a panel of experts for a conversation about the prospects of a lasting resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, three Israeli…

Helter Seltzer

By Jamie Levin, Sarah Treleaven,

To view a larger version of the Annotation, click on the image below:… Read More

Drip, Jordan

By Ben Ehrenreich,

We had come to the Jordan River—the one from the spirituals, which our souls yearn to cross. The same one, in name at least, that forms the boundary between the…

Abraham’s children

By Bernard Avishai,

The Economics of Occupation

By Bernard Avishai,

It is better to die from bullets

By Harper’s Staff,

Driverless

By Bernard Avishai,

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Common Ground

Common Ground

Woman with the Beauty Spot

The Trouble with Israel

Israel and Palestine

Helter Seltzer

Drip, Jordan

Abraham’s children

The Economics of Occupation

It is better to die from bullets

Driverless

April 2007