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The Iranian Journalist Who Dialed Nobel Laureates

A Nobel Calling

Kourosh Ziabari

What Is Peronism?

What Is Peronism?

Pablo Alabarces

Charlie Kirk’s Memory Is the Only Thing Uniting AmericaFest Attendees

A Turning Point for the Right?

Just three months after the assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk, the organization he founded, Turning Point USA, held its annual AmericaFest confab last weekend. Tensions and divisions on the American right — over Israel, antisemitism, Groypers, white nationalism, “heritage Americans” and Nicki Minaj — were on full display at the event.

Europe Rolls Up the Welcome Mat for Russian Nationals

Rolling Up the Welcome Mat

The Shrinking Freedom of Indian Cinema

A Film Held Hostage

Ishita Sengupta

The Afterlives of Assad’s Prisoners

The Afterlives of the Disappeared

Paloma de Dinechin

How Cafe Culture Is Reshaping Tehran

Espressos and Escape in Tehran

Fateme Karimkhan

From Band Aid to Breadbasket: Ethiopia’s Struggle To Rewrite Its Story of Hunger

Feed the World?

Arianna Poletti

A Royal Veto Keeps Abortion Illegal in Monaco

Reproductive Rights, Monaco

A Royal Abortion Blunder

Diane de Vignemont

Podcasts

From Emotional Video Games to Early Music Chanting: The Christmas Episode

From Emotional Video Games to Early Music Chanting: The Christmas Episode

Making the Case for American Power

Making the Case for American Power

How Power Hides Itself

How Power Hides Itself

Editors' Picks

The Afterlives of Assad’s Prisoners

The Afterlives of Assad’s Prisoners

Paloma de Dinechin

From Band Aid to Breadbasket: Ethiopia’s Struggle To Rewrite Its Story of Hunger

From Band Aid to Breadbasket: Ethiopia’s Struggle To Rewrite Its Story of Hunger

Arianna Poletti

‘Sustainable’ Cashmere Won’t Save Mongolia’s Steppe

‘Sustainable’ Cashmere Won’t Save Mongolia’s Steppe

Aïda Delpuech, Sara Manisera, Daniela Sala

Videos

Ground Control: How Pepper Spiced Up World Trade – With Lydia Wilson

Ground Control: How Pepper Spiced Up World Trade – With Lydia Wilson

Pete Hegseth’s Tattoos and the Crusading Obsession of the Far Right- With Lydia Wilson

Pete Hegseth’s Tattoos and the Crusading Obsession of the Far Right- With Lydia Wilson

The War We Don’t See —With Arwa Damon and Faisal Al Yafai

The War We Don’t See —With Arwa Damon and Faisal Al Yafai

Unfolding Paper’s Past: Evidence From Egypt – With Lydia Wilson

Unfolding Paper’s Past: Evidence From Egypt – With Lydia Wilson

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Contributors

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."