2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (832+ words) New Lines Magazine How a New York Monument Sparked a Lebanese Identity Dispute A plaque erected last month in lower Manhattan honoring New York's first Arab quarter has become the unlikely site of a transnational political controversy and a diaspora…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (996+ words) The message cropped up on my phone from a dear friend and ambassador for my charity INARA, the International Network for Aid, Relief and Assistance. "We're hopefully going for the summit on the 20th," wrote Leonardo Avezzano, an adventurer and documentary…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (664+ words) New Lines Magazine The Religious and Cultural Symbolism of Iran's State-Sponsored Mass Weddings On Monday, a state-sponsored mass wedding was held for over 100 couples in Tehran's Imam Hussein Square, timed for the anniversary of the marriage of Imam Ali and…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago  (642+ words) Ahmed Abdul Jalil has spent most of his life tending to a place of worship in Aden, the port city in southern Yemen. Yet it is not one of the mosques that Muslims like him attend regularly across the country,…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago  (1623+ words) New Lines Magazine How Israel-Backed Sweida Became Syria's Narcotics Capital The militias profiting from the drug trade do not answer to Damascus In the early hours of Sunday, May 3, Jordanian F-16 fighter jets crossed into Syrian airspace and launched strikes on…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago  (1000+ words) New Lines Magazine Drake, DJ Khaled and Palestine's Authenticity Test The Toronto rapper's jab at his former collaborator exposed the strange role Gaza now occupies in public life " less a political reality centered on those impacted than a way for…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago  (112+ words) Writer Robin Yassin-Kassab joins Faisal Al Yafai to discuss why the Syrian revolution succeeded where others failed, and what the new state has and hasn't reckoned with one year on...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago  (1714+ words) In one video, a man dives to the ground as gunfire cracks through the air. In another, a drone rises slowly upward, explosives dangling underneath. In a third, a young man stands amid dense jungle, dressed in camouflage and brandishing…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (671+ words) Among the promised reports on the horizon "in the next 30 days or so" are ones titled "Syrian UAP Instant Acceleration" and "UFOs in Formation Over Persian Gulf," according to Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who is part of…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (762+ words) New Lines Magazine How To Lose a Prime Minister in Two Years Is it election time already? The minutiae and arcane details of British political life are a regular source of confusion, within and without the British Isles. Why, on…...