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Hezbollah Has Lost the South Again
Twenty-six years ago, Israel withdrew from south Lebanon. Now, the region is occupied again, more than a million are displaced and the drones never stop screeching overhead.
The Maestro’s Boycott
Indian conductor Zubin Mehta’s decades-long relationship with Israel has been defined by wartime performances with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. When he announced that he had canceled his 2026 engagements in the country in protest against the Netanyahu government, some viewed it as a betrayal.
The Suicide Crisis Stalking Sudanese Refugees
Sudanese refugees in Cairo are confronting trauma and mental distress amid a severe international funding shortfall that has all but eliminated crucial mental healthcare and cash assistance programs. Stories of survivors, doctors and aid workers show how a generation scarred by war is being failed.
In Kazakhstan’s Oil Heartland, the Workers Who Built the Country Are Dying Quietly
Kazakhstan is the world's 13th-largest oil producer, and hydrocarbons fund nearly half its national budget. In the steppe villages above the Tengiz and Kashagan fields, residents describe respiratory illness, sudden deaths, falsified air quality data and entire towns being rebuilt elsewhere to escape the smell.
The War Crime No One Wants To Name
Human rights lawyer Sari Bashi and journalist Sara Cincurova join Kwangu Liwewe Agyei on Global Insights to discuss how sexual violence is used as a weapon of war from Israel-Palestine to Ukraine, and why survivors' voices are so often pushed aside.
How a New York Monument Sparked a Lebanese Identity Dispute
A monument honoring New York’s “Little Syria” sparked a diplomatic dispute after Lebanon’s foreign minister objected to descriptions of famed diaspora writers like Kahlil Gibran as belonging to a broader “Syrian” literary tradition. The row exposed tensions over Lebanese national identity, diaspora history and the Arab world’s celebrated cultural figures.
An Afghan Woman’s Ascent of Everest
A survivor of a 2014 Taliban ambush in Afghanistan who feigned death to live, River Ahmad fled the country in 2019 and is now climbing Everest for the women and girls back home — and for her brother, who died by suicide.