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Hungary’s Toxic Chinese Factories

How the Scimitar-Horned Oryx Became a Conservation Unicorn
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The Unicorns of Conservation

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Endgame Scenarios

Trump has backed himself into a corner with Iran. Any deal risks appearing, in his eyes, like a humiliating failure, one his opponents will mock. He knows this. His opponents know this. The weight of that constraint presents a dangerous equation as the president threatens escalation.

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Tunisia’s Landmarks Are Under Threat — and so Are the Architects Who Would Preserve Them
India’s Digital Health Push Is Overworking Its Front-Line Women
An Anguished Debate Among Iranians
Inside the Emirates’ Occupied Islands
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Iran’s Arab ‘Occupied Territories’

The Long Shadow of the Iran-Iraq War
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Iran

‘Sacred Defense’

An Iranian’s Dispatch From the Digital Darkness
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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?

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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

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Lessons in Power and Democracy From Syria to Iran

Lessons in Power and Democracy From Syria to Iran

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In Search of a Story for Syria
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Syria

In Search of a Story for Syria

Why Iran Doesn’t Need a Navy To Threaten Global Energy
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Strait Talk

Iran’s Afghan Refugees Flee Homeward
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Between Iran and a Hard Place

In Bahrain, Sympathy for Iran Takes On Sectarian Significance
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Bahrain’s Sectarian Trap

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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."