Pulitzer Prize-Winner Jhumpa Lahiri Declines Award from Noguchi Museum After Keffiyeh Ban

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri has declined to accept an award next month from New York’s Noguchi Museum after three of its employees were fired for violating a new internal policy banning keffiyehs, a garment symbolic of Palestinian solidarity.“Jhumpa Lahiri has chosen to withdraw her acceptance of the 2024 Isamu Noguchi Award in response to our updated dress code policy,” the Long Island City institution said in a statement on Wednesday, as first quoted in the Ne