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CAIRO — It was hot, Egypt-hot, when friends and relatives gathered one recent morning outside the concrete walls of Cairo’s notorious Tora prison to greet the newly released. The flowers …
After Years of Languishing in Egypt’s Prisons, a Sudden Release Read MoreCAIRO — An American lawyer imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates since mid-July is expected to be released after his sentence was overturned by an Emirati court, reversing a punishment …
Sentence of American Lawyer Held in UAE Is Overturned Read MoreQatar has had 12 years to plan for the World Cup. Now, with the first games of the tournament just over 100 days away and the intricate match schedule announced …
FIFA Proposes Late Changes to Qatar World Cup Schedule Read MoreAn unexpected loophole presented itself: the university as temporary refuge. In 2018, Arien Mack, then a professor of psychology at the New School for Social Research in New York, founded …
She’s at Brown. Her Heart’s Still in Kabul. Read MoreIran has begun a sweeping crackdown on its Baha’i community, a long-persecuted religious minority, arresting dozens of people and destroying property belonging to members of the group, according to accounts …
Iran Targets Its Baha’i Community With Arrests and Home Demolitions Read MoreBEIRUT — On its second anniversary, the massive port explosion that rocked Beirut in 2020 was still damaging the city, as grain silos damaged in the blast partially collapsed on …
Beirut Port Silos Partly Collapse on Second Anniversary of Blast Read MoreJERUSALEM — Hebrew, with its roots in a biblical patriarchy, and reinvented 3,000 years later to become the lingua franca of today’s Israel, has become the focus of efforts to …
He Says, She Says: Hebrew Meets Gender Politics Read More