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Nidal Hassan’s Execution Will Not Be Livestreamed, but the Idea Has Deep Historical Roots

Carnivals of Death

Stephen J. Hartnett

Inside the Syrian Village Hit by Jordan’s Airstrikes

Daraa Bleeds Under Jordan Airstrikes

Yemen’s War Has Turned Facebook Into a Mourning Wall

Yemen’s Mourning Feed

As fighting intensified this fall, Yemenis turned Facebook into a running record of the dead. Hundreds of posts trace the lives of students and graduates who felt they had no choice but to take up arms.

Saeed Al-Batati

Thirteen Years of Harassment, and Three Minutes to Close Mada Masr

Egypt’s Media Siege

The Land Expropriations of the Assad Era Still Hang Over Syria

Assad's Sarin Was Made on Our Land

Fear and Unity Fueled a Historic Turnout Among Israel’s Palestinian Voters

A Historic Turnout

How Rome’s Urban Shepherds Adapt and Survive

A Most Metropolitan Shepherd

Serbia’s Victorious New Democrats Face an Old Question

Serbia’s New Leaders Face a Bind

Jasmin Mujanović

Can Amal Help Lebanon Find a Way Out of War?

Holding Out Hope

Ashkan Hashemipour

Podcasts

The AI Accusations Shaking the Literary World

The AI Accusations Shaking the Literary World

A Death That Divided America

A Death That Divided America

How 1980s Lebanon Made Today’s Middle East

How 1980s Lebanon Made Today’s Middle East

Editors' Picks

Inside the Syrian Village Hit by Jordan’s Airstrikes

Inside the Syrian Village Hit by Jordan’s Airstrikes

Fear and Unity Fueled a Historic Turnout Among Israel’s Palestinian Voters

Fear and Unity Fueled a Historic Turnout Among Israel’s Palestinian Voters

The Land Expropriations of the Assad Era Still Hang Over Syria

The Land Expropriations of the Assad Era Still Hang Over Syria

Videos

Is Bamako About To Fall?

Is Bamako About To Fall?

The Quarterly Review: How Did We Get Here?

The Quarterly Review: How Did We Get Here?

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

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

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

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

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Contributors

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."