The Oscars shortlists are getting longer. I'm not talking about the size of the lists themselves, although it is true that ...

This Hanukah story is about two kinds of battle; the physical struggle against others (political and sometimes military); and the spiritual struggle within ourselves to trust in God (the oil).

When I opened the poetry collection (Before the Sea Awakens) by the Iraqi poet Hussein Al-Sayyab, I felt as though I were ...