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

A New Middle East Is Unfolding Before Our Eyes

1 week ago | time.com | Karl Vick

It might be difficult to discern through the black clouds billowing from bomb craters in Tehran, but Iran has spent most of the 21st century as the region’s rising power. Until recently, things had really been going its way. In Iraq, the U.S. toppled Saddam Hussein, then departed, having turned Iran’s largest and most dangerous neighbor from an enemy to a vassal even before Tehran’s militias rescued Baghdad from ISIS, and then stayed.
A New Middle East Is Unfolding Before Our Eyes

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Karl Vick

1 day agoTulsi Gabbard sidelined in Trump administration discussions on Israel and IranThe MAGA rift over Iran is playing out within the administration, with Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, at odds with other top officials — and the president himself.
Israel Gets the War It Wanted

2 weeks ago | aol.com | Karl Vick

Thousands gather to protest against Israel's attack on Iran, after the Friday prayer in Qom, Iran on June 13, 2025. Credit - Anadolu — Getty ImagesYou can’t see Iran from Israel, but on its scenic northern border stand the hills of Lebanon, which at the point where the two countries are closest, is done up to look just like the Islamic Republic.
Pakistan Jails Baloch Human Rights Activist

Mar 24, 2025 | 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

Mar 24, 2025 | 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

Mar 20, 2025 | 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.