Middle East
Losing Control? An Iranian and an Israeli on the Recent War
Academic Nahid Siamdoust and political analyst Ori Goldberg join New Lines’ Faisal Al Yafai on Global Insights to discuss the fallout of the war between Israel and Iran.
Historicide in Gaza
Roman pots and Phoenician jewelry may be more glamorous than filing cabinets full of administrative papers, but the latter record the basic facts needed to understand a society. In Gaza, Israel has now destroyed these archives — the culmination of a long process curtailing the possibilities of Palestinian history.
Gaza and the Undoing of Zionism
A review of recent works on the Gaza war by Peter Beinart, Avi Shlaim and Pankaj Mishra explores how they converge on a single interpretation, long argued for by Palestinian scholars like Rashid Khalidi: The crisis is not an aberration, but the end point of a century-long project.
The Psychological Barrier Broken by Iran and Israel’s Missile Exchange
The latest exchanges of missiles between Israel and Iran have broken a long-standing psychological barrier in the Middle East, and are being viewed by states in the region with profound ambivalence. With deterrence fading, what follows may be more volatile still.
The Israeli Drones Guarding Fortress Europe
Countries across the Mediterranean rely on Israeli-made drones to police their maritime borders. Those same drones are often battle-tested on the Palestinians in Gaza.
Why the Middle East’s Autocrats Are Losing Their Grip
Fawaz Gerges joins Faisal Al Yafai on the podcast for a wide-ranging discussion on why the Middle East is so often misunderstood.
Lost in a Land That Was Once Ours
In a shared taxi ride across Gaza’s desolate landscape, Lujayn, a young Palestinian writer, witnesses eight decades of Palestinian loss and displacement recounted in a common experience of pain and dispossession.