Ellen O'Grady is the author of Outside the Ark: An Artist's Journey in Occupied Palestine. She lives in Durham, NC, and travels frequently, giving storytelling/slide-show presentations based on her work. She is currently drawing panels for her next book The Magic Nation, a graphic novel that explores boundary crossing. For more information check out her website: www.ellenogrady.com.

To Understand and To Act

There has been constant discussion in our news media about the continuing conflict between Israel and Palestinians in the tiny strip of land on the…

A Primer on Islamism Today

Most of us hear about various Islamist groups such as Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah, and Hamas without understanding what they really represent, why they…