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What It’s Like To Be An Architect In Tripoli, Lebanon
The Life of an Iraqi Jew in Exile
The Transnational Storytelling Platform Empowering Afghan Youth
What It's Like To Be a Novelist in Basra
What Bitcoin Reveals About State Failure in the Middle East
The “Pro-Palestine” Movement is Hijacking the Palestinian Cause
The Escalating Price of Ignoring Extremism
The Arab Initiative Racing Against a Global Surge in Antisemitism
What It’s Like To Be a Women’s Rights Activist in Jordan
Bamyan’s Slopes Held a Generation’s Dreams. Then the Taliban Returned.
An Old Arab Debate Resurfaces in Venezuela’s Battle for Freedom
Can a Few Young Afghans Reforest a City on the Brink?
What the World’s First Civilization Reveals About Us
“One Man Does Not Represent Us”: An Afghan Translator Speaks Out After the D.C. Shooting
Lebanon’s Break with a 76-Year Taboo
Is Inclusive Governance Still Possible in Post-Assad Syria?
Education and Culture Endure in a Devastated Gaza
Inside Iran’s Intensifying Crackdown on Dissent
What You Might Have Missed: November at Middle East Uncovered
The Iran-Iraq War Shaped Their Lives. Their Art Tells the Story.
Murad Ismael’s Win Signals a Turning Point for Yazidis
The Shifting Global Order and its Implications for the Middle East: Part 3
How the Muslim Brotherhood Came to America
How a Royal Court Garment Became the Taliban’s Tool of Control
A Presidency Missing in Action
Mourners Turn Protesters After Omid Sarlak’s Death
The Man Who Chronicled Baghdad’s History from Prison
Neglect and Isolation Leave Afghanistan Defenseless Against Disaster
How Phil Juma Put Iraq on London’s Culinary Map
The Case for U.S. Reengagement with Syria
Hamas is Not Preparing to Disarm. Its Next War Will Be Against Gazans.
Why Does Bagram Still Haunt Washington’s Imagination?
Reviving the Lost Art of Reading in Iraq
Wine Cellars or Rocket Silos? Lebanon Has a Choice to Make.
Iraq’s Youth Demand a State That Honors Its Constitution
The Shifting Global Order and its Implications for the Middle East: Part 2
Fifteen Years After My First Vote, Iraq Still Waits for Democracy
Fathers in Afghanistan Refuse to Surrender Their Daughters’ Dreams
What You Might Have Missed: October at Middle East Uncovered
Teaching the Language of the ‘Enemy’
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Iran’s Persecution of the Baháʼí Faith Exposes Its Deepest Insecurity
The Letters We Still Need to Read
The Woman Behind Palestine’s Pioneering Brewery
Tribal Loyalties Are Burning Afghanistan and Pakistan Alike
Twenty-Five Years After Resolution 1325
Guns, Gender, and the Burden of Liberation
The Shifting Global Order and its Implications for the Middle East: Part 1
Starlink vs. the Islamic Republic
Gaza's Competing Militias Guarantee Perpetual Chaos
Kurdish Artists Revive a Culture Under Threat
The Real Reason Many Arabs Don’t Believe in Democracy
A Nobel Win That Rekindles the Arab World’s Scientific Legacy
Israel’s Arabs Should Choose Participation Over Ambivalence
Threads of Hope in a Fraying Country
Hamza Howidy Left Gaza but Refuses to Leave Its People Behind
Dictators Share a Playbook, But So Do the Brave
A Parliament by Design, Not by Vote
The Case of Iraqi Humanitarians and Development Practitioners
Will This Two-Year Nightmare Finally Be Over?
Shuhra Wakili and the Ballad of the Exiled
Two Years After October 7th, Grief Unites Palestinians and Israelis
How Terror and Fear Are Testing Britain’s Social Fabric
The Journalist Fighting for Iraq’s Democratic Future
She Wanted to Be a Doctor. Now She Fights to Keep Afghan Kids Learning.
What You Might Have Missed: September at Middle East Uncovered
Druze Families Grieve the Massacre in Sweida From London
Can Al-Sharaa Deliver on Peace?
The Charisma and Catastrophe of Hasan Nasrallah
Local Baby Food Brands Are Disrupting Lebanon’s Market
Eight Years Later, Kurdistan Continues to Work Toward Independence
Iraq, According to King Faisal
What Happened When I Asked Young Iraqis to Stand Apart
Elizabeth Tsurkov’s Release and the Growing Pressure on Iran’s Proxies
Is the Middle East the Next India or China for Startups?
Inside the Taliban’s Crackdown on the Internet
The Journalist Taking on Hezbollah From Inside Lebanon
Assad’s Legacy and the Failure of a Syrian Homeland
“It’s not a protest, it’s a scream”: The growing anti-war movement inside Israel
Predation and Survival in Gaza’s Neighborhoods
Liberalism Was Once Foreign to Europe Too
The Politics Behind Iraq’s Jaafari Law
Afghan Hackers Refuse to Log Off
Iraq Becomes a Recruiting Ground for Russia’s War Machine
Turkey Jails İmamoğlu in Authoritarian Turn
Kurdish Eco-Activists Die Fighting Fires Under Suspicious Circumstances
Majorities, Minorities, and the Struggle to Redefine Syria
Can Lebanon Break Free from Hezbollah’s Grip?
Inside the Taliban’s Secret Drone Program
Can Hydroponics and AI Rescue Farming in Kurdistan?
Antisemitism Is Not Just a Jewish Problem
The Forgotten Founders of Modern Iraq
A New Low for Press Freedom in Gaza
'I lived in Iraq when the West invaded'
No One is Innocent in the Age of Vengeance
The World Must Hold the Line on Non-Recognition of the Taliban
Afghanistan’s Fight for Safe Screen Time
Trump’s Armenia–Azerbaijan Peace Gamble
Washington’s Window to Rewrite the Peace Process
Iraq and Turkey Launch a Game-Changing Infrastructure Project
Lebanon’s Struggle for Answers Five Years After the Blast
Iran Expels Over One Million Afghans as Refugee Crisis Escalates
The Engineered Divisions Imposed on Iraq
The World Moved On. She Stayed to Defend Yazidi Women.
Reimagining US Foreign Aid as a Tool for Change
Lebanon and Iraq Brace for Syria’s Next Implosion
The Trio Vying to Rule a Broken Syria
How the Wall Street Journal Mistook Propaganda for Journalism
Wheelchair-Accessible Transport Finally Arrives in Lebanon
Traveling Through Wartime Airspace
Fordow’s Craters: Tombs for Billions of Dollars and Millions of Dreams
The Books the Taliban Doesn’t Want Read
Iraq Attempts to Break Free of Iran’s Orbit
Recognizing the Taliban Won’t Make Them Legitimate
Sectarianism Is Eating Syria’s Transition Alive
The Arab Media Startup Taking On Extremists
The Artists of Sulaymaniyah Found a Home. Can They Keep It?
How to Make Human Rights Advocacy Credible Again
The Relentless Rise of Afghan Entrepreneurs
Palestinians Are Hostages of the Ayatollahs
Can Baghdad’s Booksellers Survive the Selfie Era?
American Feminism Needs a Reality Check
Caught Between the Taliban and Tehran
The Resistance That Devours Its Own
In Iraq, Mosul’s Women Find Freedom in Female-Only Transport
How Iraq’s Federal Court Abandoned the Constitution
The Trump Effigy and the Iranian Empire
Did Bombing Iran Make America Safer?
The Shifting Censors of Syrian Cinema
Iraq Prepares for the Worst as Ceasefire Efforts Collapse
Afghan Refugees Caught in the Crossfire
The Collapse of Iran’s “Resistance” Empire
Q & A: Matt Warner on Empowering Communities, Not Bureaucracies
Iran’s Future in Five Scenarios
I Risked My Life to Oppose Extremism. Now Germany Wants to Deport Me.
The ICC is Pursuing Charges of Gender Persecution Against the Taliban. Will it Succeed?
The Arab States Under Iranian Occupation Do Need a Savior
Solar Power Transforms Post-ISIS Mosul
A Warning from the Ruins of a Golden Age
Should the U.S. Ban the Muslim Brotherhood?
The Taliban Is Forcing Afghans to Protest Foreign Wars. Most Can’t Afford Bread.
Kurds Enter the Global Gaming Boom
Blasphemy Laws Are a Gift to Tyrants—Not a Path to Order
Iran’s Battle for Reform Began Long Before 1979
LGBT Syrians Are Being Hunted By Their Neighbors
Obama Brought Poetry. Trump Brought a Checkbook.
What the West Gets Wrong About Iraq
A Letter From the Editor of Middle East Uncovered
They Risked Their Lives for the U.S. Now They Face Deportation.
The Last Line of Defense for Afghan Girls? Bitcoin.
The Fall of Kabul Was a Century in the Making
From Suspected Spy to Beloved Teacher
Trump Toasted the Gulf. Iraq Wasn’t on the Guest List.
Why MBS Is Winning Without Signing
Introducing Middle East Uncovered
Gamal Abdel Nasser's Last Gamble
Democracy Dies Not Just in Darkness
Masih Alinejad's Voice Unveiled
Entrepreneurship in a Collapsing Economy
“Knowledge Is the Enemy of Dictatorship”
Afghanistan’s Education Crisis Affects Boys Too
"They Messed with the Wrong Student"
Under Taliban Rule, a Translator Works to Keep Knowledge Alive
In Iraq, the Battle for Democracy Starts With the Constitution
Aid Doesn't Need to Be Costly to Be Effective
How One Translator Challenged Syria’s Surveillance State
A Bomb Killed His Best Friend. He Responded with Compassion.
She Spent Her Twenties in a War Zone. Now She’s Rewriting the Future in Exile
The Page-Turner in a Town Standing Still
Facebook’s Betrayal of Progress in the Arab World
Children’s art from Afghanistan