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Refugees

Moving Portraits

Con Voyage

by Wolfgang Bauer, Sarah Pybus,

From Crossing the Sea, by Wolfgang Bauer. In 2014, Bauer, a German journalist for Die Zeit, traveled undercover with Syrian refugees on a boat headed from Egypt to Greece. His…

Escaping Wars and Waves

by Olivier Kugler,

The Golden Drop

by Maggy Donaldson,

A visit to the heart of African Paris

Invisible City

by Justin E. H. Smith,

By Justin E. H. Smith, from a work in progress. Smith’s fourth book, The Philosopher: A History in Six Types (Princeton), will be published in June. At the end of August, the oldest…

Marooned at the Mall

by Jenna Krajeski,

Iraq’s forgotten Christians in Kurdish exile

Waiting State

by Olivier Kugler,

No Man Is an Island

From a decision by the Immigration and Protection Tribunal of New Zealand in the case of Ioane Teitiota, who because of rising sea levels fled his home country of Kiribati,…

Last Request

From emails exchanged by employees of the U.S. State Department, an anonymous Iraqi man known here by the pseudonym Omar, and Omar’s brother. In 2011, Omar, who had worked as…

Abraham’s Children

by Bernard Avishai,

Toward a right of return for Palestinians

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by Ed Ou,