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On July 15, 2022, Air Force One landed on the baking tarmac in Jeddah. Despite campaign promises to treat Saudi Arabia as a “pariah,” President Biden, spurred by high oil prices, came to the Kingdom on bended knee to plead for a production hike. ...

China’s New Middle East

On July 15, 2022, Air Force One landed on the baking tarmac in Jeddah. Despite campaign promises to treat Saudi Arabia as a “pariah,” President Biden, spurred by high oil prices, came to the Kingdom on bended knee to plead for a production hike. ...

In an anonymous statement to the United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), an Egyptian woman described in painful detail her family’s reaction to her contracting HIV: They ostracized her, beat her, and withheld her inheritance. In an attem...

A Spreading STIgma

In an anonymous statement to the United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), an Egyptian woman described in painful detail her family’s reaction to her contracting HIV: They ostracized her, beat her, and withheld her inheritance. In an attem...

The ball snakes from left to right, slicing across the glossy gym floor as our opponents close in on the goal. With five minutes left in the game, they are sharp-set on breaking the tie. And, unfortunately for my team, their odds look pretty good.&nb...

Soccer Offers a Shot at a Bigger Goal

The ball snakes from left to right, slicing across the glossy gym floor as our opponents close in on the goal. With five minutes left in the game, they are sharp-set on breaking the tie. And, unfortunately for my team, their odds look pretty good.&nb...

In 1993, the United States launched a series of raids on Mogadishu, Somalia so disastrous and publicly humiliating that they would redefine presidential decision-making for the next decade. Now, in the wake of America’s exit from Afghanistan, a...

Somalia Syndrome

In 1993, the United States launched a series of raids on Mogadishu, Somalia so disastrous and publicly humiliating that they would redefine presidential decision-making for the next decade. Now, in the wake of America’s exit from Afghanistan, a...

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Take ‘The Line’—a megacity under construction with two parallel skyscrapers stretching 170 kilometers horizontally through the Arabian desert. Or ‘Hyperloop’—Elon Musk’s proposed high-speed tran...

Ego, ENLARGED

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Take ‘The Line’—a megacity under construction with two parallel skyscrapers stretching 170 kilometers horizontally through the Arabian desert. Or ‘Hyperloop’—Elon Musk’s proposed high-speed tran...

Fatmata left her home in Sierra Leone in February of 2020, packing her bags for the Sultanate of Oman in hopes of securing “a better means of survival” for her and her family. She expected to find work as a supermarket attendant and earn a salary...

Migrant Domestic Workers in Oman: A Lost Population

Fatmata left her home in Sierra Leone in February of 2020, packing her bags for the Sultanate of Oman in hopes of securing “a better means of survival” for her and her family. She expected to find work as a supermarket attendant and earn a salary...

“The Hour will not occur until the Euphrates recedes, uncovering a mountain of gold over which people will fight. Ninety-nine out of every hundred will be killed. And every man among them will say: ‘I might be the one who survives.” – Boo...

Drought in the Fertile Crescent

“The Hour will not occur until the Euphrates recedes, uncovering a mountain of gold over which people will fight. Ninety-nine out of every hundred will be killed. And every man among them will say: ‘I might be the one who survives.” – Boo...