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Muhammad Hamed / Reuters Lola and Her Tormentor
A reporter who covers domestic labor in the Middle East tells of the women who are exploited there, and the women who do the exploiting.
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Ali Jarekji / Reuters The Jordanian Airline Making Money Off the Laptop Ban
How trolling Trump became a marketing strategy
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Muhammad Hamed / Reuters 'Trump Is Speaking About Us Without Seeing Us'
Conversations with refugees
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Vladimir Voronin / AP The Limits of Chinese Isolationism
Can a country doing business all over the world really avoid other peoples' politics?
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Zohra Bensemra / Reuters 'Look What Freedom Has Brought Us: Terrorism on the Beach'
Tunisia’s democratic success has generated a worrying byproduct: religious extremism.
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Hosam Katan / Reuters The Boy Named Jihad: From the Ashes of the Arab Spring to the Battlefields of Syria
When pro-democracy protests failed, one Jordanian teen made a fateful decision: to fight for al-Qaeda.
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Alice Su ‘Gaza Is Hell’
Desolation and destiny in a land in limbo
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Muhammad Hamed/Reuters It Wasn't Their War
Whatever legitimacy the Islamic State had in Jordan was incinerated along with Muath al-Kaseasbeh's body.
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Alice Su Daily Life in the Shadow of ISIS
How Iraq's displaced people are coping with war and want
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Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters When Fleeing War Becomes Illegal
Palestinians escaping Syria are being turned away by neighboring states.
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Muhammad Hamed/Reuters Jordan's Quiet Emergency
How much longer can the kingdom support a million refugees?
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James Noronha A Dispatch From the Counterterrorism Olympics
Is there value in a six-day warrior-fest in the middle of the Jordanian desert?
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YouTube Saudi Arabia's King of YouTube
In a country where the music scene is largely underground, Alaa Wardi broadcasts his a cappella covers to millions around the world.
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Reuters Coming of Age in the Syrian Conflict
“In 2011, I was going out with my friends, studying finance, going to work in a bank. But then, shit.”
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Alice Su How Do You Rank Refugees?
In Jordan, aid workers wrestle with a deeply troubling question: What makes an asylum seeker from Syria needier than one from Sudan?
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Feng Li/AP Jordan: China's Gateway to the Middle East
A bustling trade fair illustrates the possibilities—and limits—of Beijing's engagement in the region.
