Millions had fled along the highway I had taken. Behind them Iraq was riven, its wounds pried open and left unsutured.

When Mario Vargas Llosa announced in October 2023 that his new novel, Le dedico mi silencio—now published in English as I Give You My Silence—would be his

A couple of days before I arrived in Predappio, I read that Hitler’s birthplace in Austria had been compulsorily...

The West can play at being universal, seeing itself as the only ‘civilisation’ and basing itself on metrics of...

‘Two men stood on the street – good enough for me. “And do you consider yourselves socialist or not?” I inquired.’ William T. Vollmann visits Cuba.

The story of Amrum—a German movie about the last days and immediate aftermath of World War II as experienced by a twelve-year-old boy on the isolated

"The last day that I saw him, it was very sad. I didn't want to leave him."

The war in Ukraine.

If every accusation is a confession, then the US State Department report released on 20 July, which describes Cuba as...

On my last visit to Tripoli, this past June, the city often felt as if it had left the protracted conflicts of Libya’s post-Qaddafi era behind. At night,

Unless Morocco’s government provides better jobs, education, healthcare, and human rights to young people, the crisis we witnessed this last week will happen again.

Time is embedded in the way Mark Jenkin works – not just the occasional resurrection but the hand-cranked cameras and...

بغداد/ تميم الحسن يبدو أن بيع أصول الدولة مخرج للأزمة المالية، مع تقديرات تتحدث عن نحو 600 ألف عقار حكومي، بينها قرابة ألف قصر من إرث النظام السابق.وترى أوساط سياسية أن تحويل جزء من هذه الأصول إلى سيو...

World Cup discourse reproduced a colonial binary of rational Europe versus emotional non-West. Rejecting teams as political proxies, Cihan Tuğal urges dismantling the hierarchy in actual struggles.

In Killing Spree, the poet Jorie Graham pursues an essentially ethical impulse to find a true language for the evil in the world.

Reporting from a car in Baghdad.

بغداد – واع أعلنت هيئة الحشد الشعبي، اليوم الأربعاء، استشهاد 20 منتسباً وإصابة 32 آخرين في الهجمات الأمريكية - السعودية. وقالت الهيئة، في بيان تلقته وكالة الأنباء العراقية (واع): إن "الحصيلة غير النها...

Reporting from a car in Baghdad.

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

Late one night in May 2016, Naif al-Qaysi was riding shotgun in an old Landcruiser as it barreled down an empty highway through the desert connecting

Reporting from a car in Baghdad.

In 1954, with the ending of French colonial rule in Southeast Asia, the Geneva Accords established Laos as an independent state, led by the Royal Lao

A reflection on the Jewish Museum’s Paul Klee exhibit

The Turkish ‘saga’.

In April 2024 international news sources circulated a video of a talk delivered by a senior Israeli military official during a tech conference at Tel Aviv

At the NATO summit.

On late Berger.

As a British wartime child living near secret things and sites, I can remember easily respecting the instruction: ‘...

Close to midnight on Tuesday, April 7, a loud explosion rattled my family’s house in a suburb of Baghdad. A column of white smoke shadowed the alleys

Each of Iran’s recent wars has been quick to acquire a name. On the day Israel stopped bombing Iran in June 2025, Donald Trump took to Truth Social to

Close to midnight on Tuesday, April 7, a loud explosion rattled my family’s house in a suburb of Baghdad. A column of white smoke shadowed the alleys

My friend Jawad Ali, a Palestinian American lawyer, was at his daughter’s graduation last month when he got a call...

July 15, 2026 – “For almost a year after October 7, Israel’s war with Lebanon remained an oddly prim, choreographed conflict on the border.”

Close to midnight on Tuesday, April 7, a loud explosion rattled my family’s house in a suburb of Baghdad. A column of white smoke shadowed the alleys