Karl Vick

United States

Editor at Large at TIME

Editor at Large with TIME magazine in NYC, after 4 years in Jerusalem bureau, and 16 at the Washington Post in Rockville, Nairobi, Istanbul, Baghdad and LA.

Articles

Pakistan Jails Baloch Human Rights Activist

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Karl Vick

Activists from Baloch Yakjehti Committee and civil society hold portraits of Mahrang Baloch, one of Pakistan’s most prominent human rights advocates, during a protest demanding her release, in Karachi on Mar. 24, 2025. Credit - Asif Hassan—AFP/Getty ImagesPakistan has again arrested Mahrang Baloch, a prominent champion of human rights for the country’s ethnic Baloch minority, and barred her lawyer from visiting her in jail.
Pakistan Jails Baloch Human Rights Activist | TIME

2 months ago | time.com | Karl Vick

Mahrang Baloch, a prominent champion of human rights for Pakistan’s ethnic Baloch minority, was included in last year’s TIME100 Next list of the world’s emerging leaders.
Inside the Conviction of Iran’s Would-Be Assassins

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Karl Vick

Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad gestures to supporters outside the federal courthouse after testifying at the trial of her would-be assassins in New York, Mar. 18, 2025. Credit - Seth Wenig—APOn Thursday, after deliberating for less than four hours, a federal jury returned guilty verdicts against two Eastern European self-described gangsters hired by Iran to send a hit man to kill an Iranian dissident at her Brooklyn home.
Locals in Sudan Are Saving Lives Aid Agencies Can’t Reach

Jan 16, 2025 | yahoo.com | Karl Vick

An Emergency Response Room communal kitchen in Omdurman, Sudan, on June 2, 2024. Credit - Mazin Alrasheed—ReutersParadoxically, Sudan is home to both the worst humanitarian crisis in the world and the most heartening possible response to it.
Watch: Narges Mohammadi Talks to Margaret Atwood

Dec 24, 2024 | time.com | Karl Vick |Andrew Johnson

December 24, 2024 10:22 AM ESTNarges Mohammadi picked up Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid 's Tale while in prison. The activist had been sentenced to 16 years for challenging Iran's enforcement of what Mohammadi terms gender apartheid—a system of dress codes, sexual subjugation, and coercive control enforced, as in Atwood's book, by men who have taken power as a theocracy. Mohammadi was still in prison when she won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2023.
UNWRA Chief Philippe Lazzarini on the Agency’s Future in Gaza

Nov 22, 2024 | time.com | Karl Vick

By Karl VickNovember 22, 2024 9:00 AM ESTFor 75 years, the United Nations agency known as UNRWA has been the backbone of health and education for Palestinians with refugee status, a population that now totals 6 million people, including about 1.4 million in Gaza. In the past, whenever fighting broke out, the organization would also serve any civilian seeking shelter in the enclave’s 300 primary schools—protected by the blue flag of the United Nations.
UNWRA Chief Philippe Lazzarini on the Agency’s Future in Gaza

Nov 21, 2024 | yahoo.com | Karl Vick

UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini looks on during a press conference on the situation in Gaza at the United Nations offices in Geneva on Nov. 18, 2024. Credit - Fabrice Coffrini—AFP via Getty ImagesFor 75 years, the United Nations agency known as UNRWA has been the backbone of health and education for Palestinians with refugee status, a population that now totals 6 million people, including about 1.4 million in Gaza.
Deborah Lipstadt Is Monitoring Antisemitism. She's Been Busy

Oct 29, 2024 | yahoo.com | Karl Vick

Deborah Lipstadt, U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, in New York on Feb. 28, 2024. Credit - Victor J. Blue—Bloomberg via Getty ImagesDeborah Lipstadt came to her job as U.S. Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism with a boatload of credentials and a lifetime of experience.
The Death of Yahya Sinwar

Oct 18, 2024 | time.com | Karl Vick

By Karl VickOctober 18, 2024 9:00 AM EDTThe corpse of Yahya Sinwar was found in the landscape he envisioned—the dusty rubble of an apocalyptic war ignited by the sneak attack he had planned in secret for years, and launched on Oct. 7, 2023. The catch was that the fighting extended only 25 miles east and at most four miles south from the shattered villa in southern Gaza where the Hamas leader died one year and nine days later.
Iran, Trump, and the Third Assassination Plot

Sep 23, 2024 | flipboard.com | Karl Vick

Report: Senior Iranian official says Hezbollah pager could have caused helicopter crash that killed RaisiA senior Iranian official reportedly says Tehran was involved in purchasing the pagers held by Hezbollah operatives that exploded across Lebanon last …