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Para-passports: A Tour Through Fantasy Travel Documents
Jan 03 2023
By Patrick Bixby, author of License to Travel: A Cultural History of the PassportPassports occupy a place in some of our most avid fantasies. They can promise travel to exotic destinations; they can provide secure passage to a new life far away; they can enable flight from the dangers, the restr
The Revolutionary Power (and the Limits) of Music in the Muslim World
Oct 05 2022
By Mark Levine, author of We’ll Play Till We Die and Heavy Metal IslamThe video, posted anonymously on Facebook, had only 300 views when I first saw it. The singer wasn’t named, and in fact wasn’t even in the video — the camera stayed steady on the crowd. The words supplied their own visuals: “A