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An Increasingly Desperate Trump Threatens Iran’s Annihilation
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United States

Empty Threats?

The False ‘White Genocide’ Claim Reshaping US-South Africa Relations
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South Africa

A Pretense of Persecution

History and Myth in the Holy Land
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Middle East

History and Myth in the Holy Land

Advocates for the modern state of Israel often invoke the biblical past. A clearer sense of history and myth, including from American leaders, might be one step toward creating a more peaceful Israel-Palestine.

In Defense of Egyptian Food
Should Texas Schools Display the Ten Commandments?
Water Scarcity in Jordan Is Causing an Agricultural Crisis
How Uganda Became a Holding Ground for America’s Deportees
The Seven-Day Lightning Offensive That Changed Yemen’s War
50 Years of Yousra
Syria Hands Down Sentences in 2025 Coastal Massacres Trial
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Syria

Sentences for a Massacre

Houthi Advance Threatens Saudi Deterrence
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Keeping Up With the Houthis

The Attacks on an Open Letter to Iran’s Political Prisoners Are Misguided
Argument
Iran

Whose Anti-Imperialism?

Syria’s Fuel Price Protests Test the Limits of Post-Assad Dissent
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Syria

Fuel for the Fire

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How the Failed Revolutions of the 1970s Remade Our World

How the Failed Revolutions of the 1970s Remade Our World

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Why Every Conflict Is Also a Love Story

Why Every Conflict Is Also a Love Story

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How 9/11 Remade America

How 9/11 Remade America

United States
Somaliland’s Uphill Struggle for Recognition in Washington
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Somaliland

Seeking US Recognition

In Dubai, Trade Continues on the Front Lines of the Iran War
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Iran, United Arab Emirates

War and Watermelons

As Morocco Races Toward the World Cup, a Wave of Demolition Is Erasing Old Neighborhoods
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Morocco

A Wave of Demolition

The Language of Terrorism Since 9/11
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United States

Talking of Terror

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The Seven-Day Lightning Offensive That Changed Yemen’s War

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Syria’s Fuel Price Protests Test the Limits of Post-Assad Dissent

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Somaliland’s Uphill Struggle for Recognition in Washington

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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."