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Waiting for Yemen’s al-Sharaa

‘From Damascus, Here Is Sanaa’

Sama’a Al-Hamdani

Why Homelessness Remains Such a Vexing Issue in the US

How Not To Solve Homelessness

How France’s Religious Nationalists Hijacked the Pope’s Visit

Pope Leo and the Trojan Cross

From far-right billionaires to ultraconservative TikTok influencers, a who’s who of France’s identitarian Catholics played a role in the pope’s first visit to France since his election, and left Easter eggs all along his route for their followers to see.

Diane de Vignemont

History and Myth in the Holy Land

History and Myth in the Holy Land

Robin Yassin-Kassab

An Increasingly Desperate Trump Threatens Iran’s Annihilation

Empty Threats?

Joseph Cirincione

The False ‘White Genocide’ Claim Reshaping US-South Africa Relations

A Pretense of Persecution

In Defense of Egyptian Food

A Grain of Truth

Should Texas Schools Display the Ten Commandments?

The Texan Tablets

Water Scarcity in Jordan Is Causing an Agricultural Crisis

Dry Harvest

Podcasts

Why Ethiopia Is at War Once Again

Why Ethiopia Is at War Once Again

How the Failed Revolutions of the 1970s Remade Our World

How the Failed Revolutions of the 1970s Remade Our World

Why Every Conflict Is Also a Love Story

Why Every Conflict Is Also a Love Story

Houthi Advance Threatens Saudi Deterrence

Keeping Up With the Houthis

The Attacks on an Open Letter to Iran’s Political Prisoners Are Misguided

Whose Anti-Imperialism?

Yassin al-Haj Saleh

Syria’s Fuel Price Protests Test the Limits of Post-Assad Dissent

Fuel for the Fire

Anagha Subhash Nair

Somaliland’s Uphill Struggle for Recognition in Washington

Seeking US Recognition

Théophile Simon

Editors' Picks

History and Myth in the Holy Land

History and Myth in the Holy Land

Robin Yassin-Kassab

The Seven-Day Lightning Offensive That Changed Yemen’s War

The Seven-Day Lightning Offensive That Changed Yemen’s War

Mohammed Al-Qadhi

Syria’s Fuel Price Protests Test the Limits of Post-Assad Dissent

Syria’s Fuel Price Protests Test the Limits of Post-Assad Dissent

Anagha Subhash Nair

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."