Boxing
Benghazi Hits the Big Leagues
As Benghazi hosts European soccer giants and boxing celebrities, Khalifa Haftar’s regime in eastern Libya is betting on sports and reconstruction to win over Libyans and the West.
The Age of the Clown
From Jake Paul’s bout with Anthony Joshua to Andrew Tate’s foray into the ring, celebrity boxing has become a stage where spectacle is increasingly displacing mastery.
Imane Khelif’s Punch and the Culture Wars
In her home country of Algeria, the controversy around Imane Khelif’s gender has managed to rally the entirety of a nation whose multiethnic nature and sprawling and varied geography have long defied easy categorization.