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Watching the Last Years of the Ottoman Empire From an Istanbul Jail

The Prison of Empire

John Klopotowski

What Is Peter Thiel up to in Argentina?

Peter Thiel’s Argentine Adventure

Pablo Alabarces

The Palestine Exception in US Justice

Who’s a Terrorist?

The 1992 Anti-Terrorism Act supposedly gives all Americans an opportunity to sue perpetrators of terror in U.S. courts. But in practice, it gives Israeli Americans a path to justice while withholding it from Palestinian Americans.

Albanians Embrace Their ‘Flamingo Revolution’

The Flamingo Revolution

Israel’s Polluting West Bank Factories

‘Factories of Death’

Alessandro Stefanelli

Inside the Rise of Debt-For-Nature Swaps

Trading Debt for Nature

What a Pocketful of Metal Reveals About Afghanistan’s Forgotten Empires

The Other Side of the Coin

How a Lebanese Dish Survived for a Century in Oklahoma

Stirring Memories

There Is No Iran Nuclear Deal and There May Never Be

United States, Iran

Trump’s Iran Deal vs. Obama’s

Joseph Cirincione

Podcasts

How a New Pandemic Exposes the Geopolitics of Disease

How a New Pandemic Exposes the Geopolitics of Disease

The Winners and Losers of the Iran Peace Deal

The Winners and Losers of the Iran Peace Deal

How Europe’s Hinterlands Became Its Front Line

How Europe’s Hinterlands Became Its Front Line

Editors' Picks

Israel’s Polluting West Bank Factories

Israel’s Polluting West Bank Factories

Alessandro Stefanelli, Filippo Taglieri

How a Lebanese Dish Survived for a Century in Oklahoma

How a Lebanese Dish Survived for a Century in Oklahoma

The Reality of Returning to Gaza

The Reality of Returning to Gaza

Athar Abu Samra

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."