Lebanon

Palestine," from which this is excerpted, is a memoir in monologue by writer and actress Najla Said, daughter of the late Palestinian American scholar Edward Said. Produced by Twilight Theatre Company in association with New York Theatre Workshop, it opens Wednesday at the 4th Street Theatre in New York and runs through March 21.
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From The New York Times:

From The New York Times:

Ali Jaafar in Variety:

by Evert Cilliers

A massive Dell Inc. computer assembly plant once seen as a job generator worthy of the promise of more than $300 million in state and local inducements will go dark in four months, a victim of new corporate calculations and changing customer tastes.

Dell announced Wednesday it will close its desktop computer manufacturing plant near Winston-Salem by the end of January, shedding 905 workers. The announcement came two days after the plant, which produces desktop units primarily for business customers, marked four years in operation.

Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth

Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth

Graeme Wood review's Neil MacFarquhar's book in the Barnes & Noble Review: