Belén Fernández

Belén Fernández

Belén Fernández is the author of Inside Siglo XXI: Locked Up in Mexico’s Largest Immigration Center (OR Books, 2022), Checkpoint Zipolite: Quarantine ... in a Small Place (OR Books, 2021), Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World (OR Books, 2019), Martyrs Never Die: Travels through South Lebanon (Warscapes, 2016), and The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work (Verso, 2011). She is a contributing editor at Jacobin Magazine, and has written for the New York Times, the London Review of Books blog, Current Affairs, and Middle East Eye, among numerous other publications.


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A promi­nent fea­ture of the as­sault on free­dom of thought and ex­pres­sion in the US is the race to ban books.

opinion by Belén Fernández
Published On 23 Apr 2023
Umer Siddiqui, 18, holds a pamphlet as he and a group of students discuss the “The Bluest Eye” during a meeting for their book club, which reads and discusses books that have been banned in various Texas school districts, at the University Branch Library in Sugar Land, Texas, U.S. April 15, 2023. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare

Age­ing is a nat­ur­al process, but cap­i­tal­ism would have you be­lieve that it is not.

opinion by Belén Fernández
Published On 4 Apr 2023
Elderly and middle-aged people exercise with wooden dumbbells during a health promotion event to mark Japan's "Respect for the Aged Day" at a temple in Tokyo's Sugamo district, an area popular among the Japanese elderly, September 17, 2018. REUTERS/Issei Kato