How Soccer Commentators Became the Sport’s Greatest Storytellers
From the BBC's numbered pitch grids to Issam Chaouali's poetic eruptions, commentators have shaped not just how soccer is watched but how it is remembered.
The Arabs of Hyderabad
From royal guards to entrepreneurs and wrestlers, Hyderabad’s Yemeni-origin community has navigated the collapse of princely rule, the violence of 1948 and life in independent India, preserving its identity and reinventing itself in a changing city.
A Leap of Faith: Inside Syria’s First Frog Farm
In the forested plains of Sahl al-Ghab in Hama province, Hassan Duleybi has set up Syria's first frog farm, less than a year after the fall of the Assad regime. Duleybi learned the trade while displaced in Turkey and returned home to find an abundant wild frog population he believes could anchor a new export industry.
The AI Boom Sparks a Rural Rebellion in Utah
Box Elder County, a deep-red rural pocket of a Republican supermajority state, seemed like the perfect place to put a hyperscale data center that would support national security. So why did it ignite a civic revolt among residents and a major reckoning for Utah’s politicians?
Uneasy Allies: The Real Relationship Between Turkey and Syria’s New Rulers
The partnership between Turkey and the new Syrian leadership is long-standing and complex. It has evolved into an alliance defined not by subservience, but by mutual dependence, recurring friction and an increasingly assertive Damascus.