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How the Assad Regime Poisoned Former Rebels in Southern Syria

Poisoned Chalice

Atomic Wildfires Are Russia’s Looming Compound Disaster

Russia’s Atomic Wildfires

How a Journey to Kuwait During the Iran War Revealed a Divided Gulf

The Long Road Home to Kuwait

A Kuwaiti writer's flight home was rerouted by war into a 24-hour journey through Riyadh, the Saudi oil town of Qaisumah and, finally, a drive across the border, retracing the path Kuwaitis took after the 1991 liberation.

Syrian Torture Survivors Respond to Death Sentences for Assad and Others

The Writing on the Wall

The Sacred Convictions That Preserve the Profane Red Lines of Partition

Partition's Enduring Tragedy

Saudi Arabia Bets Everything on Restraint

Betting Everything on Restraint

Théophile Simon

Counting the Books in America’s Federal Prisons

A Novel Idea

The Politics Behind Africa’s Support for Gianni Infantino

Why Africa Still Stands With Infantino

Kwangu Liwewe Agyei

Walking Beirut’s Transformed Neighborhoods, From Hamra to Gemmayzeh

Reading Beirut's Walls

Podcasts

Listen Again: How Defiance Began at Home in Assad’s Syria

Listen Again: How Defiance Began at Home in Assad’s Syria

The Wars We’ve Learned To Live With

The Wars We’ve Learned To Live With

How Crime Built the Modern World

How Crime Built the Modern World

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How the Assad Regime Poisoned Former Rebels in Southern Syria

How the Assad Regime Poisoned Former Rebels in Southern Syria

Atomic Wildfires Are Russia’s Looming Compound Disaster

Atomic Wildfires Are Russia’s Looming Compound Disaster

Saudi Arabia Bets Everything on Restraint

Saudi Arabia Bets Everything on Restraint

Théophile Simon

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."