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Heartache and Hope at Syria’s Border With Jordan

Border Stories

Natascha Tahabsem

Walking the Camino to Santiago de Compostela

Footsteps of the Faithful

Impossible Revolutions and Psychedelic Mysteries: Our Best Books of 2024

The Year in Books

In our annual tradition, New Lines' editors usher in the new year with a list of the best books we read in 2024.

How Diljit Dosanjh Changed the Way Sikh Men Are Viewed in Pop Culture

The Punjabis Have Arrived

How the Battle of Algiers Made Jean-Marie Le Pen

Le Pen in Algiers

Phineas Rueckert

Lost in the Luigi Mangione Fun House

Venerating Violence

Alexander Reid Ross

The Fall of ‘Mr. President’s Province’

Latakia After Assad

Kurdish Musician Hozan Cane Recalls Her Political Imprisonment in Turkey

Prison Song

Inside Israel’s Shadow War Against Iran in Syria

Moses' Files

Podcasts

From Deadly Desserts to Hawaiian Pizza: Culinary Origin Stories and the 2024 Christmas Quiz — with Erin Brown, Ola Salem, Surbhi Gupta and Kareem Shaheen

From Deadly Desserts to Hawaiian Pizza: Culinary Origin Stories and the 2024 Christmas Quiz — with Erin Brown, Ola Salem, Surbhi Gupta and Kareem Shaheen

The End of Assad and a New Era for Syria — with Kareem Shaheen, Rasha Elass and Faisal Al Yafai

The End of Assad and a New Era for Syria — with Kareem Shaheen, Rasha Elass and Faisal Al Yafai

Merkel and Memory in Modern Germany — with Katja Hoyer and Faisal Al Yafai

Merkel and Memory in Modern Germany — with Katja Hoyer and Faisal Al Yafai

Editors' Picks

Hope and Despair at Assad’s ‘Human Slaughterhouse’

Hope and Despair at Assad’s ‘Human Slaughterhouse’

Aubin Eymard, Cian Ward

Dawn in Damascus

Dawn in Damascus

The Backstory Behind the Fall of Aleppo

The Backstory Behind the Fall of Aleppo

Hassan Hassan, Michael Weiss

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Contributors

Hoda Sherif

Hoda Sherif

"The mental health crisis for Palestinians living in Gaza was already acute before Oct. 7. Since 2006, Israel had imposed a military closure on Gaza, controlling everything from who and what entered or left the territory to the population registry and the daily allotment of electricity. The closure shaped entire generations that have grown up amid repeated cycles of violence, with military incursions, airstrikes and severely restricted freedom of movement."

Pierluigi Bizzini

Pierluigi Bizzini

"Pergusa has become a symbol of the ongoing climate crisis, a crisis that future generations will pay dearly for. What has happened at Pergusa is a foretaste of what other fragile ecosystems will face in the future if action is not taken soon. Here, in the heart of Sicily, in the heart of the Mediterranean, we have witnessed the end of the seasons."

Alex Rowell

Alex Rowell

"Watching the devastation of the country I had long considered home from my new perch in Scotland, I wonder: How sustainable is this? How many more times can Lebanon and its people withstand this much death and destruction?"

Hanna Bechiche

Hanna Bechiche

"The successful armed struggle for independence enabled Algeria to position itself as the spearhead of African liberation and the champion of pan-African unification. A foreign policy focused on providing material and political support to every African liberation movement propelled Algeria to the forefront of a nascent postcolonial order overflowing with optimism and idealism for a new Africa — free, anticolonial and revolutionary."