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El Salvador’s Prison Machine

How Anti-Fascism United French Women Pacifists With Tunisia’s Independence Movement
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An Unexpected Solidarity

In Homs, Revenge Is the Only Law Left Standing
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How Homs Came Apart

Homs, once the capital of Syria’s revolution, has become a violent landscape of sectarian killings, property seizures and unrestrained impunity. As neighbors and armed factions exploit the security vacuum, the new government is using selective enforcement and deliberate neglect to reshape the city’s demographics and power balances.

Pakistan Is Quietly Shopping for New Proxies in Afghanistan
How an Ecological Disaster in Mauritius Awakened a People
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Where I Go, Yugo

Jeita Grotto and the Price of Heritage
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Heritage for Hire

Replanting Syria’s Lost Heritage
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The Shape of Gaza’s Future
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The Shape of Gaza’s Future

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Why the Internet Got Bad, and How To Fix It

Why the Internet Got Bad, and How To Fix It

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The Power Shifts Changing the Middle East

The Power Shifts Changing the Middle East

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Hala Alyan Reflects on Motherhood, Exile and the Geography of Loss

Hala Alyan Reflects on Motherhood, Exile and the Geography of Loss

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The Forgotten Photographs of Iraq’s Yazidis
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Forgotten Photographs of the Yazidis

Nuclear War Movies Are Back
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The Return of Nuclear Cinema

Kurds Could Hold Syria Together or Pull It Apart
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Beyond the Reach of Damascus

How Zohran Mamdani Made History
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Mamdani’s City of Dreams

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 Kamal Shahin
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The Human Cost of El Salvador’s Gang Crackdown

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How an Ecological Disaster in Mauritius Awakened a People

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Lydia Wilson
Lydia Wilson

"Words have been shown as inadequate against the military might of Israel, buttressed by the most powerful countries in the world. We are all impotent witnesses, unable to prevent the atrocities we have been watching for almost 22 long and cruel months. What use are more words? And is it really my place to be the amanuensis of Palestinians?"

Paul Apostolidis
Paul Apostolidis

"People can start to think and feel differently about who bears which costs of our common life when they take the chance of telling and listening to stories of different immigrant groups — together. This makes it possible to sense the profound resonances between, for instance, Greek and Mexican immigrant experiences as well as the jarring ways that such experiences are 'really different.'"

Olivia Snaije
Olivia Snaije

"In literature, there is an unquestioned acceptance of a cultural dominance that is situated in the east, whether formerly in Baghdad or Damascus, or more currently in Cairo, Beirut and increasingly in the Gulf. While Arabic-language literature from the Maghreb does travel east, writers from sub-Saharan Africa feel they are overlooked in the Middle East."

Waleed Nasir
Waleed Nasir

"Pakistan must make a case for “constructive multi-alignment,” finding ways to be a strategic asset to both the U.S. and China, argued Yusuf and Akhtar. But it cannot do that while it continues to be mired in political instability, economic degradation, surging violence from nonstate actors and a hostile neighborhood."