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Wine Cellars or Rocket Silos? Lebanon Has a Choice to Make.
A viral tweet proposing to turn Hezbollah’s tunnels into wine cellars forces Lebanon to face a long-avoided question: will it keep digging into conflict…
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Iraq’s Youth Demand a State That Honors Its Constitution
I’m part of the generation fighting for a state that serves its citizens, not its factions. We’re demanding that Iraq finally live by the constitution…
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Hamas at War with Itself
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The decline of global order is no longer driven by authoritarian challenge alone. Democracies are unraveling from within, undone by grievance politics…
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Fifteen Years After My First Vote, Iraq Still Waits for Democracy
Iraq still holds elections, but authority lies elsewhere. For many voters, participation has become less an expression of faith in government than a…
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Fathers in Afghanistan Refuse to Surrender Their Daughters’ Dreams
Under Taliban rule, Afghan fathers struggle to stay hopeful for daughters they can no longer protect, and for a future that feels increasingly out of…
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