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Inside the Emirates’ Occupied Islands

Iran’s Arab ‘Occupied Territories’

The Long Shadow of the Iran-Iraq War

‘Sacred Defense’

Faisal Al Yafai

An Anguished Debate Among Iranians

The Weight of Other People’s Wars

The war has occasioned an anguished debate among Iranians. The division that has emerged — between those who will not support a war on their own country and those who have, through suffering and desperation, arrived at support for the war — is real and painful and will not be resolved easily.

Nahid Siamdoust

An Iranian’s Dispatch From the Digital Darkness

A Dispatch From the Dark

Prominent Israeli Leftist Chooses Tucker Carlson as His Messenger to Americans

Israeli Leftist's Right Turn?

In Search of a Story for Syria

In Search of a Story for Syria

Robin Yassin-Kassab

Why Iran Doesn’t Need a Navy To Threaten Global Energy

Strait Talk

Soran Mansournia

Iran’s Afghan Refugees Flee Homeward

Between Iran and a Hard Place

In Bahrain, Sympathy for Iran Takes On Sectarian Significance

Bahrain’s Sectarian Trap

New Lines Contributor

Podcasts

Lessons in Power and Democracy From Syria to Iran

Lessons in Power and Democracy From Syria to Iran

What the Epstein Files Reveal About How Elites Operate

What the Epstein Files Reveal About How Elites Operate

How the Iran War Came to the Gulf

How the Iran War Came to the Gulf

Editors' Picks

The Noxious Smoke Enveloping Tehran

The Noxious Smoke Enveloping Tehran

Ahmad Baydoun, Chris Osieck, Nilo Tabrizy, Wim Zwijnenburg

Iranian Kurdish Fighters Eye a Weakened Tehran

Iranian Kurdish Fighters Eye a Weakened Tehran

In Lebanon, There Are No More Clever Exits

In Lebanon, There Are No More Clever Exits

Videos

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

The War We Don’t See —With Arwa Damon and Faisal Al Yafai

The War We Don’t See —With Arwa Damon and Faisal Al Yafai

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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."