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The Gaza conflict is pitting leaders against their populations all over the world. Lydia Wilson reports from Jordan, whose stability is at stake New Lines Magazine newlinesmag.com/reportage/jord…

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NEW: This month the U.S. Congress passed a bill demanding the declassification of documents on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (or UFOs). Lawyer Daniel Sheehan talks to Rasha Elass about what it all means on The Lede podcast.
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ICYMI: What’s unique about India is the indigenization of Christmas. It can be seen in the regional dishes for feasts, variations on the holiday cake and carols sung in Indian languages, writes Surbhi Gupta newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-…

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Italians detain rescue vessels, while the Libyan coast guard serves as a long arm of human traffickers: the system on the Mediterranean isn't working.

My piece for New Lines Magazine :
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'Delightfully absurdist, the film make a subtle but damning point: Our experiment in democracy has always relied on a violent dose of coercion. In that, however, we’re far from alone.' Evan on 'They Cloned Tyrone' ow.ly/tRh950Ql8qJ newlinesmag.com/review/they-cl…

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Current top read: The AI actor Lili Ziren, the first such personality to appear in a TV series alongside human castmates in China, highlights a growing fascination with the technology in the country, reports Amanda Florian 小爱 newlinesmag.com/spotlight/chin…

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An absolutely enlightening window into what it means to grow up as a Kurd in Syria.

A profound and beautifully written first-person essay by Ronahi Hasan recounting why she had to be given two names at birth, and much more, in New Lines Magazine. newlinesmag.com/first-person/r…

An absolutely enlightening window into what it means to grow up as a Kurd in Syria. A profound and beautifully written first-person essay by @Ronahihasan recounting why she had to be given two names at birth, and much more, in @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/first-person/r…
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“ They are not talking about what is happening in Rwanda, what it’s like to live in Rwanda, Rwanda’s political scene and what Rwanda is doing in the DRC,” michelawrong tells me in New Lines Magazine’s Africa Insights podcast. newlinesmag.com/podcast/africa…

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While Pakistani show is a romcom, its protagonist is a political heir who avoids a family decision by blaming it on his Sufi saint. The episode highlighted the nexus between the two and reminded me of this piece we had done last month newlinesmag.com/essays/the-nex…

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The AI actor Lili Ziren, the first such personality to appear in a TV series alongside human castmates in China, highlights a growing fascination with the technology in the country, reports Amanda Florian 小爱 newlinesmag.com/spotlight/chin…

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NEW: The U.K. is adhering to its Rwanda migration plan despite rulings that it is unsafe, showing total disregard for asylum-seekers, as michelawrong and Kayumba Nyamwasa discuss with Kwangu Liwewe in the Africa Insights podcast newlinesmag.com/podcast/africa…

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'Haron’s case asked the ANC whether they had delivered on the promises made in the 1990s.' In South Africa, the truth about anti-apartheid imam Abdullah Haron's murder comes out 54 years later. Tam Hussein reports for New Lines Magazine newlinesmag.com/reportage/a-ve…

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NEW: The Gaza conflict is pitting leaders against their populations all over the world. Lydia Wilson reports from Jordan, whose stability is at stake. newlinesmag.com/reportage/jord…

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NEW: The AI actor Lili Ziren, the first such personality to appear in a TV series alongside human castmates in China, highlights a growing fascination with the technology in the country, reports Amanda Florian 小爱. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/chin…

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The security breach at the Parliament this week put spotlight on the issue of unemployment in India. The six accused had one thing in common: they're all looking for jobs. Hence, our New Lines Magazine story on the issue has become an essential read. Neha Mehrotra
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I wrote this as a micro-contribution to the current moment. Old ideas with perhaps just a tiny bit of new relevance for some...

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Territorialism, and its opposition to mainstream Zionism, might help us unlock the breadth and depth of political imagination that came before the current impasse, Laura Almagor writes. newlinesmag.com/essays/the-mov…

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'Following ' victory, fear has dissipated and given way to a reckoning – and somewhat uneasy affirmation – of what it means to be a Dutch Muslim and person of color in the Netherlands,' Frederike Geerdink writes in Spotlight. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/in-a…

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