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How Saudi Arabia Captured the U.S. Economy Through American Oligarchs
Infatuation with Saudi money—and tyranny—reveals what many oligarchs envision for America’s future.
Aug 26
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Casey Michel
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Samar Yazbek: Giving Voice to Gaza's Survivors
What happened to the people of Gaza who survived the genocide? Is it even right that we consider them survivors?
Aug 17
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King Abdullah’s False Promises of Reform in Jordan
The Western-backed monarch’s purported commitment to political liberalization doesn't match reality for Jordanians under his long rule.
Aug 14
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July 2026
'The Tragedy of Being a War,' a Poem by Mohammed Abu Lebda
"I am a war dizzy with vertigo, nursing an unforgivable humiliation."
Jul 27
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Iran Won't Give Up Its Leverage Over Hormuz
Threats to close the Strait of Hormuz were a decades-long Iranian bluff. Trump's war changed all that.
Jul 16
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The Conversation U.S.
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Robin Yassin-Kassab: Returning to Syria's Sea of Rubble
The ruins stretched for mile after mile. We drove on over dust to what had once been the suburbs of Damascus.
Jul 3
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June 2026
How the Iran War Shattered the Gulf's Illusions of Stability
The image of a well-heeled safe haven is hard to reconcile with air raid sirens and sudden explosions of missiles and drones.
Jun 18
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Frederick Deknatel
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'Both Sides of the Looking Glass,' a Poem by Adam Makary
A strike on Beirut lands in Cairo. It lands anywhere anyone is still listening.
Jun 16
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Adam Makary
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Scholar Dalia Ghanem on the End of the Gulf’s Gilded Age
For Gulf states fearing the Iran war’s fallout, “narrative control is economic survival.”
Jun 1
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Frederick Deknatel
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May 2026
'Style Guide,' a Poem by Adam Makary
Say clash, say escalation, say cycle of violence / even if one side owned all the sky.
May 27
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Adam Makary
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How Sisi's Militarized Urbanism Is Remaking Egypt
Sisi's regime has securitized public spaces and built mass surveillance into urban planning in a quest to turn Egypt into the “perfect military camp.”
May 20
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Hossam el-Hamalawy
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'Ritaj Rihan,' a Poem by Vaheed Ramazani
She went on her own two feet / and she came back to me on a stretcher.
May 14
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