Coverage and analysis of the Middle East from Washington, DC. We also have a bookstore: @MiddleEastBooks
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"I write to inform you that we are still present. Our pain has gotten worse. It is present in every tattered tent, in every small plate of rice, in every youth who is unable to study, and in every mother who battles daily to save her children."
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"The scale of destruction inflicted on energy infrastructure across the Gulf has begun to crystallize into a sobering economic reality. Yet despite the magnitude of these losses, global energy markets appear strikingly complacent."
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"Morocco’s youth are not asking for miracles. Their demands are direct, even modest: fair access to opportunity, transparent governance, accountability that applies to everyone."
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"The stories of the character Fatma are unfiltered, raw and vulnerable, breaking every social norm of silence, especially on the subjects of abuse, mental health and sexual violence."
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"Displaced people who seek shelter in a damaged building might find that a concrete wall collapses suddenly, ruthlessly crushing any life beneath it."
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"Both Iran and Israel are anti-modern projects—but only one has made the elimination of another people a structural feature of the state."
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"There are clear parallels between the situation in Algeria under French colonialism and Palestine under Israeli colonialism: a settler population takes for granted its right to the lands it has seized."
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"What might appear as mere military training is, in fact, the transformation of a former bastion of anti-Western 'rejectionism' into an operational hub for the United States."
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"In Gaza, where much of the world sees only rubble and ruin, some walls still speak. Through murals painted on bombed-out buildings, crumbling school walls, and U.N. shelters, Palestinians are telling stories that refuse to be silenced."
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"Canadians are publicly criticizing Edmonton’s Police Chief Warren Driechel for a professional trip he made to Israel in February 2026."
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"A disagreement over a local endorsement in Maryland has opened a broader rift inside Our Revolution over the meaning of grassroots power and the Palestine exception in local politics."
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"After decades in which residents freely displayed signs on every imaginable issue, it was shocking to find that people I had long considered neighbors and friends were now attempting to silence me."
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"The odds are against anyone who meets the needs of the world. Their very qualifications would be unlikely to survive the whims and prejudices of this U.S. administration, let alone survive scrutiny by Moscow or Beijing."
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"How has the U.S.—a nation born in opposition to empire—come to be seen by many as embodying it?"
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"India has become one of Israel’s largest arms customers—billions of dollars in weapons, drones and cyber tools."
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"These Israeli technologies allow law enforcement unprecedented access to an individual’s life and information, offering the equivalent of a digital stop and frisk.”
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“We are a warning. We are a laboratory. It’s like cancer, and if it’s ignored, it’s going to take over if we don’t address it now.”
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“Since October 7, any idea of restraint or accountability has completely disappeared.”
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"The law will be applied in military courts, which is where Palestinians but not Israeli Jews are tried. In these courts, the conviction rate for Palestinians is 96 percent."
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"As mass atrocities in Gaza are livestreamed around the world, healthcare workers have emerged as some of the most credible moral voices calling for accountability and protection of life."
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