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The Politics Behind Africa’s Support for Gianni Infantino

Why Africa Still Stands With Infantino

Kwangu Liwewe Agyei

Walking Beirut’s Transformed Neighborhoods, From Hamra to Gemmayzeh

Reading Beirut's Walls

Counting the Books in America’s Federal Prisons

A Novel Idea

Federal penitentiaries would not say how many books they hold, so a biographer of Malcolm X spent months assembling the count himself from handbooks, emails and a prison messaging service.

What Remains of a Musician’s Life After the Bombs Fell on Iran

A Musician’s Life in the Rubble

Fateme Karimkhan

Israel Called Its Beirut Strikes Precise. We Reconstructed Five of Them

What Israel Left Standing

They Swam to Europe but Are Still Stuck on North African Shores

The Ones Who Remain

The Odyssey Wars

The Odyssey Wars

Muhammad Idrees Ahmad

Unmasking Two Butchers of Quneitra

Tracing a Massacre

A New Chapter in the Egypt-Turkey Story Begins at the Stadium

Mo Salah’s Turkish Homecoming

Christin El-Kholy

Will ‘Never El-Sayed’ Democrats Rally Behind Their Party’s Candidate?

‘Uncommitted’ Redux?

Making Sense of Latin America’s Shift to the Right

Pink Slip

Santiago Ospina Celis

Syrians Queue for Fuel as Iraqi Oil Flows Past Them

Full Tankers, Empty Pumps

A Haitian American Reflects on the Future

What Next for Haitians in the US?

Podcasts

The Wars We’ve Learned To Live With

The Wars We’ve Learned To Live With

How Crime Built the Modern World

How Crime Built the Modern World

Why Israel Keeps Voting and Nothing Changes

Why Israel Keeps Voting and Nothing Changes

The Impossible Job Facing the ICC’s Next Prosecutor

International Justice

An Impossible Job

Kwangu Liwewe Agyei

The ‘Zero’ People Who Died After USAID Was Dismantled

The Victims of USAID’s Dissolution

Abdulwaheed Sofiullahi

What the Ceuta Crisis Reveals About the New Mediterranean Order

The New Mediterranean Order

Christin El-Kholy

The Tumultuous History Behind Chicago’s Transformation Into a Quantum Metropolis

Quantum Chicago

Editors' Picks

They Swam to Europe but Are Still Stuck on North African Shores

They Swam to Europe but Are Still Stuck on North African Shores

Okba Mohammad, Javier Jennings Mozo

Israel Called Its Beirut Strikes Precise. We Reconstructed Five of Them

Israel Called Its Beirut Strikes Precise. We Reconstructed Five of Them

Ahmad Baydoun, Chris Osieck

Unmasking Two Butchers of Quneitra

Unmasking Two Butchers of Quneitra

Zaher al-Daher, Mahmoud Naffakh, Wael Qarssifi, Mohammad Bassiki

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."