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maya sheth

human rights and global conflicts

value Connection›Each other
subject How we live together›Power, money & people›Politics
tags ethicspolitics
created 2026/04/02 modified 2026/09/19
  • The marathon men who can't go home: in the north Bronx, a small group of elite Ethiopian runners struggle to survive — the persecution they fled was far more harrowing — GQ
  • Interview with Hoda Afshar on photographing refugees, by Adam Ferguson (link needed)
  • What happens when the Coast Guard intercepts kids seeking asylum at sea — profoundly sad and tragic, with no obvious better solution — ProPublica
  • Relief efforts for civilians facing violence and disaster: ICRC, Doctors Without Borders, IRC

Israel-Palestine

Reading lists

  • Palestine reading list — Yara Asi
  • Books on Israel-Palestine — Harper's Bazaar
  • Free ebooks for a free Palestine — Haymarket Books
  • Recommended readings from The Atlantic:
    • History: Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001 (Benny Morris); My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel (Ari Shavit)
    • Memoirs: Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life (Sari Nusseibeh); Where the Line Is Drawn: A Tale of Crossings, Friendships, and Fifty Years of Occupation in Israel-Palestine (Raja Shehadeh); A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy (Nathan Thrall)
    • Fiction: Fly Already (Etgar Keret); Waking Lions (Ayelet Gundar-Goshen) — noirish story involving an African immigrant to Israel; Jerusalem Beach (Iddo Gefen) — surreal stories capturing emotional truths about Israel; Salt Houses (Hala Alyan) — multigenerational saga of Palestinian exile; Enter Ghost (Isabella Hammad) — British-Palestinian actress stages Hamlet in the West Bank
    • Poetry: Mahmoud Darwish, "In Jerusalem"; Yehuda Amichai, "Jerusalem"

Politics