Essays and commentaries:
“The Erasure of Palestinian Society,” New Lines Magazine, February 20, 2024.
Republished in French as “Effacer la société palestinienne” in Conditions
“Opinion: The conversation we can’t avoid about pro-Palestinian campus protest” CNN.com, December 13, 2023
“Collective Punishment in Gaza Will Not Bring Israel Security” New Lines Magazine, October 30, 2023.
Republished in French as “L’illusion de la sécurité par la guerre” in Conditions
“We don’t have the luxury to stop”: Interview with Syrian civil society activist Oula Ramadan.” Middle East Report, 301, December 2021.
“Identity as narrative: story-telling and self-making after the Arab Spring,” Al-Jumhuriya, February 10, 2021 ) ** Also available in Arabic, Italian, and Spanish**
“5 ways the Syrian revolution continues,” The Conversation, March 15, 2019.
“How the Syrian uprising began and why it matters,” The Conversation, March 14, 2019.
“Israel-Hamas Fighting Erupts just as Negotiations Advanced. What started it and why does it matter?” (with Boaz Atzili) Washington Post – The Monkey Cage, November 15, 2018.
“Hva kan vi gjøre i Syria?” [in Norwegian], Klassekampen, October, 12, 2018.
“The U.S. can’t stay on the sidelines while Syrians face slaughter,” Chicago Tribune, April 12, 2018.
“War in Syria: Life Under Assad’s Bombs in a Damascus Suburb” (with Loubna Mrie), Time, March 12, 2018 (international edition cover story).
“Guest Blog: Wendy Pearlman on Storytelling in Syria,” Hilton Prize Coalition, October 30, 2017.
“Does the Palestinian reconciliation deal make peace more likely?” Washington Post – The Monkey Cage, October 24, 2017.
“Why a new Palestinian Intifada could be non-violent: because that’s what Hamas wants” (with Imad Alsoos) Washington Post – The Monkey Cage, August 29, 2017.
“Our Problem Is Life Without Dignity”: Syrian Refugees Speak,” TruthOut.org, August 10, 2017.
“A Doctor from Homs,” Words Without Borders, July 17, 2019.
“The Page 99 Test: We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria,” Page99test.blogspot.com, July 30, 2017.
“Tales of Horror and Heroism from the Syrian Civil War” Vice, June 27, 2017. **Translated into Arabic as حكايا الرعب والبطولة, Ayn Almadina, August 15, 2017**
“Wendy Pearlman on We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria,” HarperAcademic, June 6, 2017.
“The Revolution Began,” Harper’s, June 2017. **Translated into Arabic as وقامت الثورة, Newsyrian.net, May 20, 2017.**
“We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria,” PowellsBooks.Blog, May 31, 2017.
“I interviewed 300 Syrian refugees. They are far from a security threat,” Washington Post – The Monkey Cage, January 30, 2017.
“Research Transparency and Political Violence: Joining the Conversation,” Political Violence at a Glance, October 13, 2016.
“The surprising ways fear has shaped Syria’s war,” Washington Post – The Monkey Cage, March 24, 2016.
“Syrian children in Turkey heal through storytelling,” PBS Newshour Teacher’s Lounge, March 2, 2016.
“America’s nonintervention is a vote for Syria’s Assad,” Reuters, June 3, 2014.
“Fathers of Revolution,” Guernica, May 15, 2014. **Published in Turkish: “Devrimin Babaları,” in Birikim on December 11, 2014.**
“On the Third Anniversary of the Syrian Uprising,” Huffington Post, March 11, 2014.
“The Argument Against US Intervention in Syria … And Why It’s Wrong,” Huffington Post, February 21, 2014.
“Intervening against Assad: Reflections from Syrian Refugees,” Huffington Post, September 16, 2013.
“‘There Is No Time for Hesitation’: Reflections From the Free Syrian Army,” Huffington Post, September 4, 2013.
“Love in the Syrian Revolution,” Huffington Post, July 18, 2013. Available in Arabic here: حب في الثورة السورية
“What is Wendy Pearlman reading?” Campaign for the American Reader Online, November 28, 2011.
“The Page 99 Test: Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement,” Page99test.blogspot.com, November 20, 2011.
“Voices Under Occupation,” Index on Censorship, Vol. 33, No. 3 (2004): 201-210.
“Targeting leaders ignores reality” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 26, 2003
“Ordinary Palestinians aren’t driven by hatred of Jews – they simply want ordinary lives,” Christian Science Monitor, June 17, 2003
“Israel’s Indifference to Civilian Lives, ”Washington Report for Middle East Affairs, September 2002
“The Palestinians Already Have a Democratic Constitution,” Washington Report for Middle East Affairs, August 2002
“Suicide Bombers Not the Only Martyrs—Israel Creates Many More,” Washington Report for Middle East Affairs, May 2002
“What Bush Doesn’t Know About Palestine,” Boston Globe, June 30, 2002
“Why they Die to Kill,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 7, 2002
“Falling into Sharon’s hands by answering violence with violence,” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 3, 2002
“West Bank Checkpoint,” Washington Post,
Interviews (print & podcast):
“Triadic Coercion: Israel’s Targeting of States That Host Nonstate Actors,” New Books Network, April 29, 2019.
“Israel and Nonstate Actors: A Conversation with Wendy Pearlman and Boaz Atzili,” POMEPS Conversations podcast, February 21, 2019.
“Trump vs. Syrian Refugees: An Interview With Wendy Pearlman,” The Nation, June 1, 2018.
“New Texts Out Now: We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria,” Jadaliyya, May 29, 2018.
“Battleground Syria – Human Impacts of Political Violence,” Deep Dish podcast, Chicago Council of Global Affairs, March 28, 2019.
“Meet the Author: Wendy Pearlman,” Indigo Bridge Books Blog, March 8, 2018.
“Writing Syria: Wendy Pearlman’s ‘Oral History of the Revolution,’” Syria Deeply, February 28, 2018.
“Northwestern Professor Wendy Pearlman Talks New Book About Syrian Refugees,” Make It Better Magazine, February 15, 2018.
“We Crossed A Bridge & It Trembled: A peoples History of The Syrian Revolution, Wendy Pearlman,” The Irrelevant Arabs Podcast, December 2017.
“Voices from Syria: A Conversation with Wendy Pearlman,” POMEPS Conversations podcast, October 9, 2017.
“A People’s History of the Syrian Uprising, Told Through Intimate Conversations,” Chicago Magazine, October 4, 2017.
“Wendy Pearlman Brings Syrian Voices to American Readers,” Washingtonian, September 25, 2017.
“Moving Us To Care,” Brown Alumni Monthly, September/October 2017.
“We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria,” New Books Network, August 30, 2017.
“Donald Trump’s Slander Against Syrian Refugees,” Truthout.org, August 13, 2017.
“Interviewing Displaced Syrians: A Conversation with Wendy Pearlman,” POMEPS Conversations podcast, July 28, 2016.
“Wendy Pearlman is an academic who studies the Middle East in an unusual way,” Global Dispatches, July 13, 2017.
“The Resilience of the Syrian People,” Chicago Review of Books, June 15, 2017.
“In ‘We Crossed a Bridge,’ Syrians Describe Horrors, Hope,” Rebellious Magazine, June 2017.
“Voices of War,” Northwestern Research Magazine (Spring + Summer 2017), pp. 46-47.
“We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled,” Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, June 1, p. 20.
“Faculty fellow Wendy Pearlman helps explain the Syrian humanitarian crisis through Syrians’ own voices,” Buffett Institute Newsletter, Spring, 2017.
“Life Advice from Wendy Pearlman,” North by Northwestern, Spring 2017.
“Five Questions: Wendy Pearlman,” Northwestern Magazine, June 2017.
“Fear Experiences of Syrian Refugees in Jordan, Turkey, and Lebanon: An interview with Dr. Wendy Pearlman,” KurdishQuestion.com, May 4, 2016.
“Interrupter Series No. 28: Wendy Pearlman,” Foreign Policy Interruptors, March 15, 2016.
“New Texts Out Now: Emigration and the Resilience of Politics in Lebanon,” Jadaliyya, May 8, 2013.
“New Texts Out Now: Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement,” Jadaliyya, November 9, 2011