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A Spreading STIgma
In an anonymous statement to the United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), an Egyptian woman described in painful detail her...
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Apr 24, 20235 min read


Game Changer: How Sports are Part of Saudi Arabia’s Bigger Plan
In 2016, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto leader of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, announced his “Vision 2030” plan, an...
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Mar 15, 20235 min read


Soccer Offers a Shot at a Bigger Goal
The ball snakes from left to right, slicing across the glossy gym floor as our opponents close in on the goal. With five minutes left in...
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Mar 14, 20236 min read


How Israel’s Ultranationalist Religious Far-Right Benefited from the Country’s Divide
What if Marjorie Taylor Greene was appointed US Vice President and Alex Jones Secretary of State? This would almost be unthinkable at the...
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Mar 7, 20236 min read


Somalia Syndrome
In 1993, the United States launched a series of raids on Mogadishu, Somalia so disastrous and publicly humiliating that they would...
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Feb 22, 20234 min read


Ego, ENLARGED
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Take ‘The Line’—a megacity under construction with two parallel skyscrapers stretching 170...
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Feb 5, 20236 min read


Iran is at a tipping point, but it’s about much more than modesty laws
On September 13, 2022, Iran’s morality police detained Masha Amini for improperly wearing her hijab. Once in custody, Amini was...
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Jan 5, 20234 min read


The Line: Ushering in the Future or a Smokescreen for Repression?
In January 2021, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) of Saudi Arabia announced The Line, a “civilization revolution” designed to...
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Dec 9, 20226 min read


Migrant Domestic Workers in Oman: A Lost Population
Fatmata left her home in Sierra Leone in February of 2020, packing her bags for the Sultanate of Oman in hopes of securing “a better...
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Dec 7, 20225 min read


Drought in the Fertile Crescent
“The Hour will not occur until the Euphrates recedes, uncovering a mountain of gold over which people will fight. Ninety-nine out of...
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Nov 29, 20223 min read


Taliban Takeover in Afghanistan Leaves Hazaras Uniquely Vulnerable
In recent weeks, #StopHazaraGenocide has raced to the top of social media users’ feeds, drawing upwards of six million tweets. The...
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Nov 13, 20225 min read


Iranian Citizens Approaching a Revolutionary Breaking Point
On September 13, Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian woman, was detained in Tehran by the Iranian morality police. Three days later, she died in...
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Nov 8, 20224 min read


Iranian Protests, the Religious State, and American Interventionism
The death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian, in Tehran on September 16, 2022, has triggered a series of protests and...
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Oct 27, 20224 min read


Politicians Stand By as Lebanon Teeters on Economic Collapse
Serena Fadel ’25 does not recognize the streets of her hometown in Beirut, Lebanon. Crumbling infrastructure, the result of the August...
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May 26, 20225 min read


Afghanistan: Ending an Aimless War
In August 2021, the United States concluded the tumultuous process of withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan—a process that was...
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Mar 21, 20225 min read


By Freezing and Seizing Afghan Assets, Biden Cements Himself as the Latest Champion of American Impe
That President Joe Biden was able to complete a successful withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan—despite facing significant...
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Feb 25, 20225 min read


Half In, Half Out: Biden’s Ambiguous Withdrawal from Yemen and its Human Consequences
At 8:30 a.m. on August 9, 2018, an aerial bomb fell on a school bus in a market in Yemen, killing 40 children. The explosion was so...
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Apr 8, 20215 min read


Dubai to Chennai: Why Gulf Medical Tourism is Taking Off
In April 2016, the Dubai Health Authority launched the world’s first medical tourism website, establishing a goal to attract 1.3 million...
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Dec 2, 20195 min read


Privatization Under U.S. Sanctions: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Path to Power in Iran
Amidst the increasing tensions in Persian Gulf, the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei ordered Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards...
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Nov 21, 20195 min read


The Islamic State and Afghanistan’s Hazaras
Insofar as the defeat of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) merits international delight, its emergence in Afghanistan has...
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Jun 11, 20193 min read
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