A Brewmaster in Palestine

Madees Khoury, Taybeh Brewing Co.

"My American passport has great value all over the world, except in this country. And my Palestinian passport has no value in the world, except for this country," Madees Khoury tells me by video call from the occupied West Bank, where she lives and works as a brewmaster and general manager of Taybeh Brewery.

Khoury travels often for work. She was in Scotland earlier this year and later flew to Boston, then Atlanta, slipping easily between trains, planes, and highways.

Taybeh, Palestine

"I felt weird because it was so easy moving around," she says. "Living here, these past two years, especially, it's been so difficult. We've been more stuck and isolated than ever."