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The Dilemmas of America’s Iranian Diaspora

United States, Iran

Tehrangeles Syndrome

Kourosh Ziabari

‘Those Who Wrap Themselves in America Are Naked’

Middle East, Iran

The Iran War and Its Gulf Discontents

Faisal Al Yafai,

Christin El-Kholy

Along an Increasingly Tense Border, Calls for Revenge Are Mounting

The Pull of Retribution

As the Syrian military deploys along the Syria-Lebanon frontier and tensions threaten to escalate, Syrian families making the crossing home carry memories of Hezbollah's role in their dispossession, and some are calling for scores to be settled.

Paloma de Dinechin

The New South Asian Power Brokers in the United States

The New South Asian Power Brokers

An Airstrike Hit an Iranian Emergency Medical Base in Shiraz, Killing 20

Airstrike Kills Iranian First Responders

The Limited Power of Iran’s President

The Hollow Presidency

Menahem Merhavy

How the Assad Regime Disappeared Thousands of Children

Syria’s Lost Children

Hezbollah’s Attack on Israel Drags Lebanon Back to War

War Returns to Lebanon

Alex Martin Astley

Sri Lanka Uses 2004 Tsunami Protocol To Preserve Bodies of Iranian Sailors

Iran’s South Asia Spillover

Podcasts

How the Iran War Came to the Gulf

How the Iran War Came to the Gulf

In the Shadow of the Ayatollah’s Death, War Comes to Iran

In the Shadow of the Ayatollah’s Death, War Comes to Iran

Trump Comes to Africa

Trump Comes to Africa

Ukrainian Orphans Evacuated to Italy Have Become a Political Football

The Orphans in a Legal Tug-of-War

Stefania D’Ignoti

The Unresolved Contradictions Ali Khamenei Leaves Behind

The House Khamenei Built

Mehrzad Boroujerdi

Hezbollah’s Latest Attack on Israel May Have Sealed the Party’s Demise in Lebanon

Hezbollah Alienates Its Base

Investigation Debunks Claims IRGC Bombed Iranian School

No Sign Iran Behind School Massacre

Editors' Picks

How the Assad Regime Disappeared Thousands of Children

How the Assad Regime Disappeared Thousands of Children

Epic Fury in the MAGA-verse Over Iran

Epic Fury in the MAGA-verse Over Iran

Danny Postel, Alec D’Angelo

Emirati Billionaire Questions Iran War as Dubai Influencers Shape Public Narrative

Emirati Billionaire Questions Iran War as Dubai Influencers Shape Public Narrative

Videos

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

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

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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."