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Pakistan’s Drone Strikes Are Hitting Afghan Civilians

The Night the Drones Returned

Fazelminallah Qazizai

UFC Freedom 250 and the Limits of MAGA Spectacle

It’s Still Fake to Me!

The Reality of Returning to Gaza

A Stranger to the Streets I Knew

When a Palestinian journalist returned to Gaza after nearly three years in Cairo, arriving just before Eid, she expected destruction and grief. But she was struck instead by how thoroughly loss has been absorbed into ordinary life.

Athar Abu Samra

The Afterlife of War’s Images

Shrines for Monsters

The Arabs of Hyderabad

The Arabs of Hyderabad

How Soccer Commentators Became the Sport’s Greatest Storytellers

A Fan With a Microphone

The AI Boom Sparks a Rural Rebellion in Utah

Utah’s AI-Generated Backlash

Erin Clare Brown

A Leap of Faith: Inside Syria’s First Frog Farm

A Leap of Faith

Anagha Subhash Nair

Uneasy Allies: The Real Relationship Between Turkey and Syria’s New Rulers

Uneasy Allies

Elizabeth Tsurkov

Podcasts

How Europe’s Hinterlands Became Its Front Line

How Europe’s Hinterlands Became Its Front Line

How Revolutionary Iran Became a Mafia State

How Revolutionary Iran Became a Mafia State

How Authoritarianism Came to One Istanbul Street

How Authoritarianism Came to One Istanbul Street

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The Reality of Returning to Gaza

The Reality of Returning to Gaza

Athar Abu Samra

The Arabs of Hyderabad

The Arabs of Hyderabad

The AI Boom Sparks a Rural Rebellion in Utah

The AI Boom Sparks a Rural Rebellion in Utah

Erin Clare Brown

Videos

Is Bamako About To Fall?

Is Bamako About To Fall?

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

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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."