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A Change at a Damascus School Has Syrians Reading the Runes

Separate Desks

Yemen’s Salafist Commanders Are Shaping Its Battlefield

Yemen’s Preachers Go to War

The Palestinian Politician Who Could Be Israel’s Kingmaker

An Unlikely Savior

Polls suggest deadlock between Netanyahu and Zionist opposition parties ahead of Israel’s election, with neither set to secure enough seats to form a government. Yet opposition leaders have rejected the idea of allying with an Arab party to achieve victory. Mansour Abbas is trying to change their minds.

Syria’s Winemakers Press on Under New Alcohol Rules

Vintage Syria

Paloma Dupont de Dinechin

The Basement Where Orthodoxy Is Being Rebuilt

One Prayer, 16 Languages

How Do You Do, Fellow Protesters?

Erin Clare Brown

The French Far Right Has Opened Pangram’s Box

Pangram’s Box

Diane de Vignemont

How Shukri al-Quwatli’s Memoir Changes Our View of Syria’s History

Treaties and Treachery

If Taiz Falls, Yemen May Never Be the Same

The Battle for Taiz

Mohammed Al-Qadhi

‘Could You Look and See if My House Is Still Standing?’

Seeing Gaza From Afar

Yemen’s Unchecked War Could Become the Next Sectarian Jihad

Yemen’s Sectarian Threat

How Manchester City’s Guilty Verdict Threatens Gulf Soccer Ownership

The Petrodollar Pitch

In India, Citizens Brace for a Democratic Unraveling

A Democracy Unraveling

Podcasts

A Death That Divided America

A Death That Divided America

How 1980s Lebanon Made Today’s Middle East

How 1980s Lebanon Made Today’s Middle East

The Forgotten Moment That Decided Palestine’s Fate

The Forgotten Moment That Decided Palestine’s Fate

Editors' Picks

Yemen’s Salafist Commanders Are Shaping Its Battlefield

Yemen’s Salafist Commanders Are Shaping Its Battlefield

Syria’s Winemakers Press on Under New Alcohol Rules

Syria’s Winemakers Press on Under New Alcohol Rules

Paloma Dupont de Dinechin

‘Could You Look and See if My House Is Still Standing?’

‘Could You Look and See if My House Is Still Standing?’

Videos

Is Bamako About To Fall?

Is Bamako About To Fall?

The Quarterly Review: How Did We Get Here?

The Quarterly Review: How Did We Get Here?

Ground Control: How Pepper Spiced Up World Trade – With Lydia Wilson

Ground Control: How Pepper Spiced Up World Trade – With Lydia Wilson

Pete Hegseth’s Tattoos and the Crusading Obsession of the Far Right- With Lydia Wilson

Pete Hegseth’s Tattoos and the Crusading Obsession of the Far Right- With Lydia Wilson

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Contributors

Lydia Wilson

Lydia Wilson

"Words have been shown as inadequate against the military might of Israel, buttressed by the most powerful countries in the world. We are all impotent witnesses, unable to prevent the atrocities we have been watching for almost 22 long and cruel months. What use are more words? And is it really my place to be the amanuensis of Palestinians?"

Paul Apostolidis

Paul Apostolidis

"People can start to think and feel differently about who bears which costs of our common life when they take the chance of telling and listening to stories of different immigrant groups — together. This makes it possible to sense the profound resonances between, for instance, Greek and Mexican immigrant experiences as well as the jarring ways that such experiences are 'really different.'"

Olivia Snaije

Olivia Snaije

"In literature, there is an unquestioned acceptance of a cultural dominance that is situated in the east, whether formerly in Baghdad or Damascus, or more currently in Cairo, Beirut and increasingly in the Gulf. While Arabic-language literature from the Maghreb does travel east, writers from sub-Saharan Africa feel they are overlooked in the Middle East."

Waleed Nasir

Waleed Nasir

"Pakistan must make a case for “constructive multi-alignment,” finding ways to be a strategic asset to both the U.S. and China, argued Yusuf and Akhtar. But it cannot do that while it continues to be mired in political instability, economic degradation, surging violence from nonstate actors and a hostile neighborhood."