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The Suicide Crisis Stalking Sudanese Refugees
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Egypt, Sudan

Sudan’s Lost Generation

In Kazakhstan’s Oil Heartland, the Workers Who Built the Country Are Dying Quietly
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Kazakhstan

Dying for Oil

Can Syria’s Trains Get Back on Track?
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Syria

Back on Track?

As plans for overland corridors linking the Gulf to the Mediterranean regain momentum, Syria is being cast as a hub for regional trade. Yet on the ground, a shattered railway network and aging infrastructure reveal the vast gap between these ambitions and reality.

The Living Fragments of Al-Andalus
An Afghan Woman’s Ascent of Everest
A Yemeni Caretaker Is Fighting To Save Aden’s Last Hindu Temple
How a New York Monument Sparked a Lebanese Identity Dispute
The Religious and Cultural Symbolism of Iran’s State-Sponsored Mass Weddings
How Israeli Airstrikes Targeted Iran’s Steel Industry
The Crisis Facing American Universities Is Bigger Than the MBA
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United States

Degrees of Uncertainty

How Israel-Backed Sweida Became Syria’s Narcotics Capital
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Syria

Sweida, the Narco-Province

Friend, Rival, Trap
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United States

Friend, Rival, Trap

Drake, DJ Khaled and Palestine’s Authenticity Test
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Middle East, Music

Drake, DJ Khaled and the Gaza Test

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The War Crime No One Wants To Name

The War Crime No One Wants To Name

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When Is a Revolution Actually Over?

When Is a Revolution Actually Over?

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How Elon Musk Fuses Rockets and Tech To Shape Modern Society

How Elon Musk Fuses Rockets and Tech To Shape Modern Society

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How Armed Groups in Colombia Use Social Media To Recruit Children
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Colombia

TikTok’s Child Soldiers

The Origin Stories of Bosnian Tattoos Are Only Skin-Deep
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Bosnia

Skin-Deep History

Drones Are Reshaping Sudan’s Civil War
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Sudan

Inside the Drone Wars

Inside the Double Life of a Syrian Hairdresser Accused of Torture in Assad’s Prisons
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Syria

The Sadist in the Salon

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Can Syria’s Trains Get Back on Track?

Can Syria’s Trains Get Back on Track?

Pauline Vacher
A Yemeni Caretaker Is Fighting To Save Aden’s Last Hindu Temple

A Yemeni Caretaker Is Fighting To Save Aden’s Last Hindu Temple

Mohammed Ali Kalfood
How Israeli Airstrikes Targeted Iran’s Steel Industry

How Israeli Airstrikes Targeted Iran’s Steel Industry

Ahmad Baydoun, Chris Osieck, Nilo Tabrizy

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Is Bamako About To Fall?

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The Quarterly Review: How Did We Get Here?

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Ground Control: How Pepper Spiced Up World Trade – With Lydia Wilson

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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."