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Inside a Volunteer Paramedic Unit Risking Everything in Southern Lebanon
Reportage
Lebanon

Running Toward the Smoke

Unrecognized and Unprotected: Bedouin Villages in Israel’s War Zone
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Middle East

Bedouins Without Shelter

Far From the Land of Good News
First Person
Lebanon

Far From the Land of Good News

Nada Bakri, whose late husband restored a family home in Marjayoun, reflects on southern Lebanon from afar, tracing the political logic that delivered the region into its current devastation while mapping what it means to love a place you can no longer visit.

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China’s Massive Investment in Hungary Is Lucrative but Toxic
How the Scimitar-Horned Oryx Became a Conservation Unicorn
Satellite Imagery Reveals the Israeli Demolition of Khiam Detention Center
From ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ to ‘Anyone Is Better Than These’
The Surprising Roots of Italy’s Food Festivals
Tunisia’s Landmarks Are Under Threat — and so Are the Architects Who Would Preserve Them
Spotlight
Tunisia

Heritage in the Dock

India’s Digital Health Push Is Overworking Its Front-Line Women
Reportage
India

The Second Shift

An Anguished Debate Among Iranians
Argument
Iran

The Weight of Other People’s Wars

Inside the Emirates’ Occupied Islands
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Iran’s Arab ‘Occupied Territories’

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

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How the War in Iran Reached South Asia’s Kitchens

India
Lessons in Power and Democracy From Syria to Iran

Lessons in Power and Democracy From Syria to Iran

Middle East
The Long Shadow of the Iran-Iraq War
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Iran

‘Sacred Defense’

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Iran

A Dispatch From the Dark

Prominent Israeli Leftist Chooses Tucker Carlson as His Messenger to Americans
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Israeli Leftist's Right Turn?

In Search of a Story for Syria
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Syria

In Search of a Story for Syria

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Far From the Land of Good News

Far From the Land of Good News

Nada Bakri
How the Scimitar-Horned Oryx Became a Conservation Unicorn

How the Scimitar-Horned Oryx Became a Conservation Unicorn

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From ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ to ‘Anyone Is Better Than These’

Asef Bayat

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

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

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The War We Don’t See —With Arwa Damon and Faisal Al Yafai

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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."