Mason L. Wong is an editorial fellow at New Lines Magazine. He comes to us via the Public Humanities Doctoral Fellowship at ...

A Mandarin-language ad targeting a Republican senator is under fire for being racist and xenophobic. The ad raises questions ...

The court-ordered closure of Mada Masr, after years of legal and security harassment, and the continued detention of six ...

Farmers’ livelihoods were taken away to build military bases and housing for regime supporters. The new government now seeks to redevelop these areas without redress ...

When the Assad regime expropriated land outside Damascus from local farmers, it became part of a chemical weapons facility.

The flocks of the Italian capital are helping to protect its remaining natural parks, even as pressures on the ancient ...

Federica Rossi is an Italian freelance journalist based in Rome. Her work covers climate change, the green transition, ...

“Fascism in the name of religion will be replaced by fascism in the name of patriotism and national security,” warned Egyptian satirist and former television host Bassem Youssef in the 2013 season ...

Arwa Esmail is a Saudi writer ...

Thousands protest government neglect of Palestinian citizens of Israel at a rally in Tel Aviv on Jan. 31, 2026. (Eyal Warshavsky/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) One of the loudest, most ...

Exactly 100 years ago, a secular French school opened in Damascus with 79 students, in rented premises close to where the current parliament stands on Abid Street. The school was known then as the ...

Leader of the Arab Israeli party Ra’am (United Arab List) Mansour Abbas, right, and Israeli politician Yoav Segalovitz attend a news conference in Nazareth on Aug. 31, 2026. (Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty ...