Good evening readers. Here's your round-up of today's must-read literary news, commentary and fiction.

Beyond the Arab Spring, a fight for freedom in the digital age LSP
"Thousands of miles away, people haggle over...you, and the days of your life and how you will live them": a former refugee's tale The Atlantic
The Iranian poet who was turned away at the border The New Yorker
The lives of 11 American radicals Lithub
Some lighter fare: on YouTube tutorials, the "waste bin of popular culture" The Paris Review
"How art making is like world building" Hyperallergic
How one writer rediscovered her hometown of Beirut Guernica
"No justice, only grace," in Natashia Deón's novel of the life and death of a woman who escapes enslavement The Los Angeles Review of Books
Matt Sienkiewicz's The Other Air Force examines how the American State Department has molded Middle Eastern media The New Inquiry

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