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Tyler Comrie / Atlantic; Getty Where the Hatred Comes From
What I learned in the space between death threats and bodyguards
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David Levenson / Getty; Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo / … Rushdie’s Challenge to Islamic Orthodoxy
For one young Iraqi man, discovering the writer’s work opened up a world beyond his closed society.
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Sally Deng I Smuggled My Laptop Past the Taliban So I Could Write This Story
My escape from Afghanistan
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Nariman El-Mofty / AP The Leaders Who Aspire Only to Hold On to Power
Nobody is trying to restore Yemen to what it once was.
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Mandel Ngan / Getty; Tom Brenner / Getty; … Middle Eastern Autocrats Embarrassed Biden at Will
America’s supposed allies feel entitled to humiliate the president.
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The Atlantic When Iran Says ‘Death to Israel,’ It Means It
Analysts too often assume that autocrats obscure the goals they wish to achieve. The historical record suggests that we should take them at face value.
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Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty What We Talk About When We Talk About Israel
In a new book, Walter Russell Mead looks at all the ways Americans’ understanding of Israel has been refracted through their own internal conflicts and aspirations.
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The Atlantic What Joe Biden Should Know About Jamal Khashoggi
Hanan Elatr Khashoggi describes her husband not as a happy warrior against MBS, but as a homesick patriot looking for ways to come in from the cold.
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Qassem Al-Kaabi / AFP / Getty Photos: Sandstorms Sweep Across Parts of the Middle East
A series of sandstorms has sent thousands to hospitals with breathing problems, and caused the closure of airports, schools, and government offices.
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Getty; The Atlantic Iran Feels Cornered by the Biden Administration
As nuclear talks resume, Iran is feeling both insecure and uncompromising—a dangerous combination.
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Getty; The Atlantic Erdoğan’s War on Truth
In 2016, the Turkish government falsely accused me of planning a coup. Five years later, these charges are still upending my life.
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Alex Majoli / Magnum America Played Into Al-Qaeda’s Hands
U.S. influence has been systematically dismantled across much of the Muslim world, a process abetted by Washington’s own mistakes.
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Fatemeh Bahrami / Anadolu Agency / Getty How America Can Win the Middle East
Beijing’s forays in the region present Washington with a test—and an opportunity.
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Pete Marovich / Getty; Fatemeh Bahrami / Anadolu … The Iran Nuclear Deal Isn’t the Problem. Iran Is.
If and when a return to the agreement is reached, the Biden administration will also need to counter Iran’s escalating efforts in the Middle East.
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Atta Kenare / AFP / Getty; The Atlantic Iran Stops Pretending
The rigged “election” of Ebrahim Raisi as Iran’s next president has the potential to be a turning point for the country. But its significance will be fully understood only in hindsight.
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Ed Kashi / VII / Redux When Justice Is Out of Reach
Accountability is a long way off for Bashar al-Assad. But the world can still preserve the memories of what has happened in Syria.
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MOHAMMED ABED / AFP / Getty No One Is Coming to Help the Palestinians
The competition for influence between Iran and Saudi Arabia has for decades affected the prospects for peace.
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Qusay Dawud / AFP / Getty Photos: Violence Explodes Across Israel and Gaza
Following weeks of escalating tensions, militants in the Gaza Strip began firing rockets into Israel, and Israeli forces have conducted air strikes in Gaza in response.
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Getty / Mark Harris / The Atlantic ‘We Want a Nation’
A new generation of protesters has taken lessons from the Arab world’s failed uprisings of a decade prior.
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CARLOS BARRIA / AFP / GETTY How to Win the Cold War With Iran
The Islamic Republic needs America as an enemy. America needs a strategy.
