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Iraq’s Fuel Crisis Exposes Its Oil Dependence

A Crude Awakening

Laurent Perpigna Iban

‘You’re Not Supposed To Be Here’

Between Optimism and Fear

The Syrians Languishing in Israel’s Prisons

Kidnapped Into Israeli Prisons

Israeli forces have detained dozens of Syrians from the country’s south, some of them teenage boys taken from farms and family homes. Their families still don’t know where they are being held or why.

Anagha Subhash Nair

The Palestinian Politician Who Could Be Israel’s Kingmaker

An Unlikely Savior

A Change at a Damascus School Has Syrians Reading the Runes

Separate Desks

Yemen’s Salafist Commanders Are Shaping Its Battlefield

Yemen’s Preachers Go to War

Syria’s Winemakers Press on Under New Alcohol Rules

Vintage Syria

Paloma Dupont de Dinechin

The Basement Where Orthodoxy Is Being Rebuilt

One Prayer, 16 Languages

How Do You Do, Fellow Protesters?

Erin Clare Brown

Podcasts

The AI Accusations Shaking the Literary World

The AI Accusations Shaking the Literary World

A Death That Divided America

A Death That Divided America

How 1980s Lebanon Made Today’s Middle East

How 1980s Lebanon Made Today’s Middle East

Yemen’s Unchecked War Could Become the Next Sectarian Jihad

Yemen’s Sectarian Threat

How Manchester City’s Guilty Verdict Threatens Gulf Soccer Ownership

The Petrodollar Pitch

In India, Citizens Brace for a Democratic Unraveling

A Democracy Unraveling

The Rising Cost of Keeping Egypt’s Vibrant Literary Culture Alive

Balancing Books

Eli Siegel-Bernstein

Editors' Picks

The Syrians Languishing in Israel’s Prisons

The Syrians Languishing in Israel’s Prisons

Anagha Subhash Nair

The Palestinian Politician Who Could Be Israel’s Kingmaker

The Palestinian Politician Who Could Be Israel’s Kingmaker

Yemen’s Salafist Commanders Are Shaping Its Battlefield

Yemen’s Salafist Commanders Are Shaping Its Battlefield

Videos

Is Bamako About To Fall?

Is Bamako About To Fall?

The Quarterly Review: How Did We Get Here?

The Quarterly Review: How Did We Get Here?

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

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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."