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Coming to Grips With Ireland’s Civil War

Ireland’s Silent War?

The Double-Edged Sword of Dutch Hit Drama ‘Mocro Maffia’

Shooting the Messenger?

On TikTok, an Unlikely Call to Islam Emerges

The TikTok Muslim Converts

Whatever is motivating some social media influencers to make a public display of conversion to Islam — and however authentic such conversions may be — the trend goes beyond a purported crisis of personal faith. It comes intertwined with politics, war and propaganda.

Unsuitable for Parents: A QAnon Fairy Tale

Moral Panic, Lurid Fantasies

In Search of My Family’s Home in Pre-Nakba Palestine

Before the Nakba

China Cracks Down on Language

Inside China’s Crackdown on English

A Portrait of James Joyce’s Lessons in a Kuwait English Class

Teaching Joyce in the Gulf

A Controversial Irrigation Canal Is a New Symbol of Hope for Haiti

A Ripple of Hope

Language Is a Powerful Weapon in the Israel-Palestine Conflict

The Language Game

Podcasts

Minor Detail, Major Implications — with Selma Dabbagh, Judith Gurewich and Katharine Halls

Minor Detail, Major Implications — with Selma Dabbagh, Judith Gurewich and Katharine Halls

The Emotional Fog of War — with Arwa Damon

The Emotional Fog of War — with Arwa Damon

The Killings Return to Darfur — with Niemat Ahmadi and Gerrit Kurtz

The Killings Return to Darfur — with Niemat Ahmadi and Gerrit Kurtz

Editors' Picks

The Diplomatic Subterfuge Behind the Dangerous Standoff in Taiwan

The Diplomatic Subterfuge Behind the Dangerous Standoff in Taiwan

Stephen J. Hartnett

The Last Calligrapher of Old Delhi Preserves a Dying Art

The Last Calligrapher of Old Delhi Preserves a Dying Art

Ubaid Majeed, Darash Dawood

The Torture and Hope of the Palestinian Diaspora in the US

The Torture and Hope of the Palestinian Diaspora in the US

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Issue 2 / Spring 2023

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Issue 1 / Winter 2023

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Contributors

Karim Zidan

Karim Zidan

"The mangoes, once a symbol of abundance and tradition, now find themselves struggling to adapt to this changing climate. Their fragility mirrors the fragility of my own imaginings of Egypt as insulated and enduring, an experience that I admit is colored by the stability and predictability of youth."

Megan Clement

Megan Clement

"If Faten had arrived in Denmark with a husband the same age as her, she would have been covered under his stronger status too. But as a single woman and a survivor of domestic violence, she has been required to prove over and again that it is precisely a man of military age who poses the greatest threat to her in Syria."

Suna Çağaptay

Suna Çağaptay

"Can a city like Antakya die? How can a city of that urban caliber be killed? The damage was significant, but Antioch didn’t die after the 526 earthquake or subsequent invasions and, despite the consequential loss and trauma, I don’t think it died with the 2023 earthquake either."

Yassin al-Haj Saleh

Yassin al-Haj Saleh

"Syria has been deluged, flooded and broken by imperial and subimperial states. The array of global and regional powers that came pouring into Syria after 2011 effectively turned the country into a container for liquid imperialism, transforming and disfiguring the place in profound and far-reaching ways, with no final state in sight."