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DARAJ

Honor’s Dark Logic

Society places its heaviest weight upon women, measuring honor through their conduct, while men are afforded a wide margin for transgression without their very existence being imperiled, Uday Al-Abdallah writes in Daraj.

A Land of Elegies: One year after the massacre

Every massacre begins the same way. The victim is stripped of individuality and turned into a mute, undifferentiated mass, Samar Yazbek writes in Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, one year after the coastal massacres.