Middle East

The Colorful Block in 2025.

The Gaza Street That Refuses to Die The Gaza Street That Refuses to Die

What I saw walking one block in Gaza.

Feb 3, 2026 / Ali Skaik

What Gaza’s Photographers Have Seen

What Gaza’s Photographers Have Seen What Gaza’s Photographers Have Seen

These pictures are records of a genocidal war, but they are something more, too—they are fragments of Gaza itself

Feb 3, 2026 / Huda Skaik

A Palestinian girl carries a gallon of drinking water she filled from a water truck in Khan Younis. Palestinians in Gaza are suffering from a severe water crisis due to the destruction of water wells by Israeli air strikes.

A Ceasefire in Name Only A Ceasefire in Name Only

The language of ceasefire has been repurposed in Gaza: It no longer describes a pause in violence but rather a mechanism for managing it.

Feb 3, 2026 / Mohammed R. Mhawish

Gaza City, December 8, 2025.

My Sister’s Death Still Echoes Inside Me My Sister’s Death Still Echoes Inside Me

Rewaa was killed by an Israeli bomb. Her absence has broken me in ways I still cannot describe.

Feb 3, 2026 / Asmaa Dwaima

Relatives and colleagues bid farewell to Palestinian journalists Abdel Raouf Shaath, Mohammed Qashta, and Anas Ghoneim, who were killed in an Israeli air strike.

“We Have Covered Events No Human Can Bear” “We Have Covered Events No Human Can Bear”

Journalists in Gaza have bartered their lives to tell a truth that much of the world still doesn’t want to hear.

Feb 3, 2026 / Ola Al Asi

Displaced Palestinians endure harsh winter conditions in makeshift tents after Israeli attacks destroyed their homes in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip, on January 11, 2026.

There Is No “After Gaza” There Is No “After Gaza”

Whether intentionally or with callous word choice, too many have begun relegating Palestine to the past tense.

Jan 31, 2026 / Sarah Aziza

President Donald Trump's son-in-lawJared Kushner during the World Economic Forum n Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, January 22, 2026.

Jared Kushner’s “Plan” for Gaza Is an Abomination Jared Kushner’s “Plan” for Gaza Is an Abomination

Kushner is pitching a “new,” gleaming resort hub. But scratch the surface, and you find nothing less than a blueprint for ethnic cleansing.

Jan 30, 2026 / Tariq Kenney-Shawa

Iraq Syria Kurds Conflict

One More Discarded Ally One More Discarded Ally

The Kurds of Syria.

Jan 28, 2026 / Azad Akın Arslan and Ronald Grigor Suny

Displaced Palestinian youths take part in a training session at the Aida Refugee Camp's football pitch, next to the separation wall outside Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, on December 16, 2025, a few weeks after an Israeli military decision to demolish the field.

What It Took to Save a Soccer Field in Palestine What It Took to Save a Soccer Field in Palestine

Europe’s governing soccer body saves a pitch in the West Bank—but is it only because the Swiss Parliament is threatening to pull its tax exemption over its inclusion of Israel?

Jan 22, 2026 / Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin

A migrant worker at a Riyadh construction site.

The Line, a Saudi Megaproject, Is Dead The Line, a Saudi Megaproject, Is Dead

It was always doomed to unravel, but the firms who lent their name to this folly should be held accountable.

Jan 21, 2026 / Column / Kate Wagner

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