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Washington’s Window to Rewrite the Peace Process

Divided We Stand a Chance

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 New Syrian Army Is Built to Fail

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

Playing the Tribal Card

Fordow’s Craters: Tombs for Billions of Dollars and Millions of Dreams

The Books the Taliban Doesn’t Want Read

A Nation “United” by Force Is No Nation at All

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

First They Came for the Alawites. Now It’s the Christians.

The Relentless Rise of Afghan Entrepreneurs

Palestinians Are Hostages of the Ayatollahs

A Shabbat in Bahrain

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

Translation Is the Frontline in the New Cold War

Is It Time to Stop Punishing Syria’s People for Assad’s Crimes?

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

From Science to Sharia

A Home for Art in Erbil

‘Afghan Women Tend to Find a Way’: Inside the Secret Classrooms Defying the Taliban’s Ban on Girls’ Education

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

Syrian Americans Must Lead the Rebuilding of Our Homeland

A New Kind of Classroom in Taliban-Run Afghanistan