Polygraph | Newsletter n°288 | 24 Jan 2025

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 – Thursday, November 20, 2025  Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

“We all grew up without a library,” one KHSA senior said. “That had an effect on a lot of kids."

Yangzhou, 1342: Caterina Vilioni's Passport to the Afterlife - Volume 2

Myself and a collective of others have worked to gather some stories from Northern Gaza. The stories detail horrific abuses, including the targeting of women and children.

Harvesting olives is an economic necessity for many Palestinians, but it is increasingly precarious.

Masoud El Amaratly is an Iraqi singing legend, his voice evoking the lush marshes of southern Iraq with lament, melancholy and longing. He is not only one of Iraq's most famous singers; he is also one...

Workshops for Gaza is a group of autonomous writers, artists, and educators organizing online classes and workshops to raise money for Palestinians.

The 154-page report, “‘Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged’: Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza,” examines how Israeli authorities’ conduct has led to the displacement of over 90 percen...

The 2024-25 Mark Roskill Graduate Symposium, "Colonial Fragments: Overlooked Art Histories," is now accepting submissions for graduate papers on the topic of the colonial fragment.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen also talks to Mehdi about Kamala Harris’s election defeat and the mistake of touting a Dick Cheney endorsement.

An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different...

The collection includes more than 50,000 artifacts, journals and books spanning hundreds of years of textile history.

We library workers call on Harvard libraries to lift the library bans on students, faculty, and staff, and implore Harvard libraries to refrain from disciplining those who study together, united not i...

A video of Shaaban al-Dalou burning to death after an Israeli strike at a hospital has stoked criticism from Israel’s allies and highlighted the plight of people trapped in Gaza.

Ahmed al-Dalou lost his wife and two sons after an Israeli strike burned their tent near Gaza’s Al-Aqsa hospital.

The world’s biggest trade publisher has changed the wording on its copyright pages to help protect authors’ intellectual property from being used to train AI tools, The Bookseller can exclusively reve...