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In a Ceasefire Between Hezbollah and Israel, the Lebanese Government Has Little Pull
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Lebanon's Three-Body Problem

Israeli Strikes Are Decimating Water Infrastructure in Lebanon
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Lebanon

Water Under Fire

Iraq’s Militias Are in a Struggle for Survival
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Iraq

The Afterlife of Iraq’s Militias

Iraqi Shiite militias, now the last intact pillar of Iran’s regional network, are navigating an existential conflict. Embedded within the Iraqi state yet aligned with Tehran, their future, and Iraq’s, hinges on the outcome of a wider confrontation with the United States.

Kuwait Is Stripping Its People of Citizenship at an Unprecedented Rate
US-Israeli Attacks on Iran Show a Pattern of ‘Double-Tap’ Strikes
Hopelessness and Love in an Israeli Prison
A Journalist’s Arrest Points to Diminishing Freedoms in Kuwait and the Gulf
Slopaganda Comes of Age
They Photographed an Execution in Bosnia. Did They Influence the Killer?
The ‘Third Gulf War’ And Its Aftermath
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Iran, The Gulf

The ‘Third Gulf War’ And Its Aftermath

Pakistan’s Balancing Act in the Iran War
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Pakistan

Pakistan’s Balancing Act

Does Israel Prefer Weak Neighbors?
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Middle East

Weak States, Big Dangers

Far From the Land of Good News
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Lebanon

Far From the Land of Good News

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The Ethics of Bearing Witness

The Ethics of Bearing Witness

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Why Every Lebanese Crisis Feels Worse Than the Last

Why Every Lebanese Crisis Feels Worse Than the Last

Lebanon
How the World Order We Know Came Into Being – and Why It’s Breaking

How the World Order We Know Came Into Being – and Why It’s Breaking

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I Grew Up in Iran and the Gulf. This War Risks Breaking the Bonds Between the Two
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Iran, The Gulf

Fraying Ties Across the Gulf

The Dangerous Quest of Syria’s Desert Truffle Hunters
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Syria

The Truffle Hunters' Roulette

What Viktor Orbán’s Defeat Means for the American Right
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Conservative Disneyland

Inside a Volunteer Paramedic Unit Risking Everything in Southern Lebanon
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Lebanon

Running Toward the Smoke

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In a Ceasefire Between Hezbollah and Israel, the Lebanese Government Has Little Pull

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They Photographed an Execution in Bosnia. Did They Influence the Killer?

Barbara Matejčić
The ‘Third Gulf War’ And Its Aftermath

The ‘Third Gulf War’ And Its Aftermath

Hassan Hassan, Kamran Bokhari

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

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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."