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Jesse Rosenfeld
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Jesse Rosenfeld is a journalist who has covered the Middle East since 2007. Based in Ramallah, Tel Aviv, Gaza City, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, and Athens over the years, he has also reported from Iraq and the Balkans, contributing to The Nation , The Daily Beast , The Intercept , and Al Jazeera, among others. His work in the region is the basis of the National Film Board of Canada documentary Freelancer on the Front Lines .
September 15, 2020
Burned out of their homes, they now confront tear gas from police, beatings by fascists, and threats of imprisonment by the government.
But when the smoke cleared, the Party of God was in the midst of an existential political crisis.
April 28, 2017
“We do not consider these results legitimate and we don’t accept them,” says one opposition leader.
The Lebanese Shiite militia, which has played a central role in defending the Assad regime, is now a powerful regional player.
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Hezbollah’s role in the Syria conflict has transformed and emboldened the Lebanese Shiite movement—and worried Israel.
March 9, 2016
A report from behind the lines, as PKK rebels resist a ferocious government campaign to crush their uprising.
Fleeing Aleppo with civilians and battered by Russian bombing, ISIS, and Kurdish militias, they have little hope that it will hold.
October 20, 2015
“Today we said ‘enough’ and decided to march.”
September 1, 2015
“Thanks to God I have made it here. I am free, I am alive!”
The refugee crisis is growing as civilians flee a war that is drawing ethnic and religious borders in blood.
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