Thirteen Years of Harassment, and Three Minutes to Close Mada Masr
The court-ordered closure of Mada Masr, after years of legal and security harassment, and the continued detention of six Matsda2sh journalists signal an intensifying crackdown on independent media. It comes as President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who is preparing for a post-2030 political transition, warns about threats to national consciousness.
Inside the Syrian Village Hit by Jordan’s Airstrikes
Lamis was 8. Her brothers, Osama and Yaseen, were 9 and 11. They were killed alongside their uncle and grandmother when Jordanian jets struck their village in southern Syria, in what Amman called a precision attack against the Islamic State group. The children’s father had been disappeared by Assad.
The Land Expropriations of the Assad Era Still Hang Over Syria
When the Assad regime expropriated land outside Damascus from local farmers, it became part of a chemical weapons facility. Across Syria, similar injustices occurred, and so far the new government has offered nothing to the families who still hold their title deeds.
How Rome’s Urban Shepherds Adapt and Survive
For millennia, shepherds have herded their sheep through Rome to graze, adapting to modernity and the urban landscape. But the coexistence of animals and humans is becoming more fraught.
Can Amal Help Lebanon Find a Way Out of War?
As Lebanon negotiates with Israel, the Amal Movement occupies an unusual position — allied with Hezbollah, embedded in the state and able to engage both Washington and Tehran. Interviews with party officials explore its vision for a settlement and why its influence may depend on a wider U.S.-Iran agreement.