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A Dying Language

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Understanding Somalia’s Destruction
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A State’s Unmaking

In the 1960s Somalia was a democratic pacesetter in Africa, and by the 1990s it was a byword for chaos and destruction. Inadequate institutions, territorial disputes, Cold War dynamics and an increasingly authoritarian leader all played their part in the country’s decline.

Mo Salah and the Myth of the Good Immigrant
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Lost in a Land That Was Once Ours
Postwar Syria Is Still Suffering Under US Sanctions
Investigating the Alawite Massacres
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Russia's Asian Aggressions

Women Released From Syria’s Prisons Share Their Stories of Incarceration
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Assad’s Women Prisoners

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Whipping Up a War

Treasure Hunters in a New Syria
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Living in Part-Time Exile on the Niger-Nigeria Border
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A Night of Terror

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Kareem Shaheen
Kareem Shaheen

"I keep reaching, myself, to find the words, and they fail me. Nothing seems to capture the moment. I wrestle with the recesses of my mind for the words, and then I see a photo of a detainee and I break down and start over. I’m not even Syrian. Just someone who was fortunate to take part briefly in their journey. Why does my heart feel like it will burst?"

Lynzy Billing
Lynzy Billing

"Watching people in the city go about their daily lives and watching the world’s callous indifference to the onslaught in Gaza, just miles away, it was as if time had not moved at all. We had seen this before."

Diane de Vignemont
Diane de Vignemont

"For the women who gather daily in Avignon, Gisele’s courage has created something extraordinary: a sisterhood born of pain and forged in resilience. Together, they are rewriting the narrative of sexual violence, proving that solidarity can rise even from the darkest places."

Peter Guest
Peter Guest

"What is often not captured in the reckoning of the nickel industry is what comes after the mineral wealth is finally exhausted. The rush has descended quickly on economies and cultures that have endured for decades, even centuries, and caused damage that might take generations to repair."