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The Toronto rapper’s jab at his former collaborator exposed the strange role Gaza now occupies in public life — less a political reality centered on those impacted than a way for audiences to judge ce...

A monument honoring New York’s “Little Syria” sparked a diplomatic dispute after Lebanon’s foreign minister objected to descriptions of famed diaspora writers like Kahlil Gibran as belonging to a broa...

As North America hosts the World Cup, the sport’s already growing popularity is reaching new fans in the United States, where interest has historically been sustained by immigrant communities.

A doctor’s viral testimony alleging abuse, neglect and even sexual violence inside Alexandria’s El-Shatby maternity hospital has renewed scrutiny of obstetric care in Egypt.

At its inauguration, Sisi openly linked the country’s new multimillion-dollar military headquarters, ‘the Octagon,’ to preventing a repeat of the 2011 uprising

The CPJ's decision to review eight journalists removed from its Gaza casualty database has sparked a broader dispute over how the organization defines journalism, culminating in a board vote to reaffirm its existing standards.

The CPJ's decision to review eight journalists removed from its Gaza casualty database has sparked a broader dispute over how the organization defines journalism, culminating in a board vote to reaffi...

What the Ceuta Crisis Reveals About the New Mediterranean Order

The Egyptian star’s blockbuster move to Turkey has become more than a soccer story, offering perhaps the clearest sign yet of the remarkable normalization between two regional rivals.

What the Ceuta Crisis Reveals About the New Mediterranean Order

Founding members of the national team share the story of a player killed in an Israeli airstrike — and how they intend to honor him

For many Palestinians in the territory, survival depends on a chain of administrative decisions over which they have no control

As National Arab American Heritage Month comes to an end, the question remains: What is the right way to react to Arabness when it appears in public? An iconic children’s show, a pop star’s concert an...

Testimonies describe a pattern of transfers between sites, lack of formal charges and rapid repatriations that have left families scrambling for answers

Earlier this week I wrote about the death of Passant Soliman, who has drawn an outpouring of public sympathy since she took her own life, rupturing Egypt’s long-standing silence around suicide. Her story, which included struggling with the absentee father of her children, has continued to reverberate through public conversations in the country. About a […]

The livestreamed act by an influencer has challenged social stigma while casting light on the pressures facing Egyptian women

On April 13, Egyptian TV viewers were treated to a rare sight: the humiliation of a top government apologist and talk show host who strayed from the regime’s talking points. Ahmed Moussa, who hosts “Ala Masuliati” (a phrase that roughly translates as “on my head be it”), was on air on the ...

The livestreamed act by an influencer has challenged social stigma while casting light on the pressures facing Egyptian women

The livestreamed act by an influencer has challenged social stigma while casting light on the pressures facing Egyptian women

The livestreamed act by an influencer has challenged social stigma while casting light on the pressures facing Egyptian women

The Trump paradox was always that he could be taken seriously without being taken literally, but that may no longer hold

Earlier this week I wrote about the death of Passant Soliman, who has drawn an outpouring of public sympathy since she took her own life, rupturing Egypt’s long-standing silence around suicide. Her story, which included struggling with the absentee father of her children, has continued to reverber...

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa contradicted claims by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz last night, telling a London audience that he had not specifically said that 80% of the nearly 1 million Syrians in Germany should return home. Al-Sharaa was speaking at Chatham House during his first official v...

The Trump paradox was always that he could be taken seriously without being taken literally, but that may no longer hold

On April 13, Egyptian TV viewers were treated to a rare sight: the humiliation of a top government apologist and talk show host who strayed from the regime’s talking points. Ahmed Moussa, who hosts “A...

On April 13, Egyptian TV viewers were treated to a rare sight: the humiliation of a top government apologist and talk show host who strayed from the regime’s talking points. Ahmed Moussa, who hosts “Ala Masuliati” (a phrase that roughly translates as “on my head be it”), was on air on the ...

The Trump paradox was always that he could be taken seriously without being taken literally, but that may no longer hold

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa contradicted claims by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz last night, telling a London audience that he had not specifically said that 80% of the nearly 1 million Syrian...

As the Iran war intensifies, the Gulf Arab states are beginning to openly question the US role in the region

President Donald Trump has faced intense criticism over the Iran war from his MAGA base, but the first major rupture within the administration has come from someone Trump himself hand-picked for one o...

As the Iran war intensifies, the Gulf Arab states are beginning to openly question the US role in the region

In 1964, the Black nationalist organizer toured Africa and the Middle East on a journey that would both transform his outlook and reveal the limits of transnational solidarity

Israel regularly detains Palestinian women for being related to those the occupation is seeking to arrest, a practice experts say is unlawful.

New rules requiring that relationships be reported to the Israeli military are only the latest of countless restrictions on romance in the occupied West Bank

How a poet finds solace in the ebb and flow of a classical literary genre

Kaouther Ben Hania’s film retells the story of the 5-year-old’s final hours and amplifies her voice to indict the world’s silence over Gaza’s children

"We cannot ignore what this means for equity, representation, and the future of this organization."

Palestinian-Canadian Amjad Ramadan is seeking nearly $400,000 in damages after he was abruptly terminated by NTN Canada, the manufacturing company he’d worked at for 15 years. He was fired soon after…