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Hezbollah’s Attack on Israel Drags Lebanon Back to War
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Lebanon

War Returns to Lebanon

Sri Lanka Uses 2004 Tsunami Protocol To Preserve Bodies of Iranian Sailors
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Iran’s South Asia Spillover

Airstrike Hit Iranian Emergency Medical Base in Shiraz, Killing 20
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Iran

Airstrike Kills Iranian First Responders

A March 5 attack in Shiraz destroyed an emergency medical services base and killed 20 people, including three health workers. Satellite imagery shows a nearby military installation was not struck. Targeting and legal experts say the evidence raises serious questions about compliance with the laws of armed conflict.

Dance and Doves at Funerals Are Defying Iran’s Regime
The Gulf Fears Whoever Wins This War
How the Damascus Dossier Investigation Failed Families of Syria’s Forcibly Disappeared
Iran Has Always Been More Than the Islamic Republic
A Tale of Two ‘Ketamine Queens’
Ukrainian Orphans Evacuated to Italy Have Become a Political Football
The Unresolved Contradictions Ali Khamenei Leaves Behind
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Iran

The House Khamenei Built

Hezbollah’s Latest Attack on Israel May Have Sealed the Party’s Demise in Lebanon
Running Notes

Hezbollah Alienates Its Base

Investigation Debunks Claims IRGC Bombed Iranian School
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No Sign Iran Behind School Massacre

The US-Israel Attack on Iran Is a Wake-Up Call for the Gulf
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The Gulf's Wake-Up Call

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In the Shadow of the Ayatollah’s Death, War Comes to Iran

In the Shadow of the Ayatollah’s Death, War Comes to Iran

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Trump Comes to Africa

Trump Comes to Africa

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The Invisible Lines That Divided South Asia

The Invisible Lines That Divided South Asia

South Asia
War, Emigration and the Search for Love in Lebanon
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Lebanon

Not So Many Fish in the Sea

Iran Is Not on the Brink of Revolution, It Has Entered a Long Decline
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Iran

Iran Is Not on the Brink of Revolution

Saudi Arabia’s Coffee Renaissance
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Saudi Arabia

Cardamom and Flat Whites

Secret Marriages and Serial Divorce in Mauritania
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Mauritania

Divorced, Desired and Devout

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Epic Fury in the MAGA-verse Over Iran

Epic Fury in the MAGA-verse Over Iran

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Emirati Billionaire Questions Iran War as Dubai Influencers Shape Public Narrative

Emirati Billionaire Questions Iran War as Dubai Influencers Shape Public Narrative

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The Gulf Fears Whoever Wins This War

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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."