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Iran’s Care for Orphans Has Been Transformed by War
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Caring for Orphans in a Time of War

Israel’s Recognition Is Drawing Somaliland Into Regional Tensions
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The Price of Recognition

Rafael Nadal as Primal Experience
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Rafael Nadal’s Primal Charisma

Rafael Nadal’s energy and uncanny intensity made watching him play an ecstatic experience that transcended tennis. All kinds of people who don’t follow the sport responded to him on a visceral level. You don’t need to know anything about tennis to “get” Rafa and his aura.

The Last Traces of a Family the Assad Regime Marked for Destruction
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The Lost Consciousness of Pre-Islamic Arabic Poetry
Inside Hezbollah’s Two-Decade Project To Shape the Houthis
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The Suicide Crisis Stalking Sudanese Refugees
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Egypt, Sudan

Sudan’s Lost Generation

In Kazakhstan’s Oil Heartland, the Workers Who Built the Country Are Dying Quietly
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Kazakhstan

Dying for Oil

The Living Fragments of Al-Andalus
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Fragments of Al-Andalus

An Afghan Woman’s Ascent of Everest
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How Authoritarianism Came to One Istanbul Street

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When Is a Revolution Actually Over?

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A Yemeni Caretaker Is Fighting To Save Aden’s Last Hindu Temple
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Yemen

Tending Aden’s Last Hindu Temple

How a New York Monument Sparked a Lebanese Identity Dispute
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Little Pre-Lebanon

The Religious and Cultural Symbolism of Iran’s State-Sponsored Mass Weddings
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Shotgun Weddings in Iran

How Israeli Airstrikes Targeted Iran’s Steel Industry
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Iran

The Flares Go Dark

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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."