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The Fordow Conundrum

1 week ago | newlinesmag.com | Michael Weiss

6 min read Israel’s attack on Iran is chipping away at Tehran’s nuclear program and lowering the threshold for American intervention For two decades, Israel’s position on Iran’s nuclear program could be fairly summarized as follows: “We’d prefer the Americans eliminate it, but we’ll do it ourselves if we have to.” The current Israeli strategy seeks to have the best of both worlds by unilaterally burning through as much of that program as possible, then presenting the United States with the...
The Survival of Syria’s Damask Rose

1 week ago | newlinesmag.com | Paloma de Dinechin

The blossom looks like pink lipstick on a bare face. That’s how the color of the damask rose stands out when it blooms in the middle of the desert. In Qaldoun al-Marah, often simply called al-Marah, a village of 5,000 people 43 miles northeast of Damascus, one of the world’s oldest rose varieties is harvested between mid-May and early June.
Egypt’s Sinai Megaproject Is Erasing Bedouin Culture

1 week ago | newlinesmag.com | Jessica Buxbaum

Once a place of near-untouched desert sands nestled in the Sinai Peninsula’s mountains, Wadi al-Raha (“the Valley of Rest”), in the Egyptian town of St. Catherine, has now been transformed into a construction site.
The South Asian Vote May Be Split for Zohran Mamdani in New York City

1 week ago | newlinesmag.com | Yashica Dutt

In an Instagram video recently posted from his official account, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani appears on screen with his arms outstretched, leaning into an open embrace as he strikes what is familiar to Bollywood fans everywhere as the “SRK pose,” named after the industry’s biggest star, Shah Rukh Khan.
Who Counts as an Afrikaner?

2 weeks ago | newlinesmag.com | Kwangu Liwewe

Debates over land, language and race expose deep fractures in identity in contemporary South AfricaThey arrived in the early afternoon at Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia on May 12 — 49 white South Africans, mostly families. Some pushed strollers, while others dragged suitcases. A few toddlers clung to their toys as their parents waved the American flag. They had come to seek refuge in the United States. On paper, they were fleeing racial discrimination.
The Israeli Drones Guarding Fortress Europe

2 weeks ago | newlinesmag.com | Sarah Souli

Six days before the Madleen — a humanitarian vessel carrying 12 peace activists from around the world attempting to break the Israeli siege on Gaza — was intercepted by the Israeli military in international waters off the coast of Gaza, it was sailing 80 nautical miles off the Greek island of Crete. There, at 11:12 p.m. on June 3, a drone buzzed loudly overhead.
Turkey’s AI-Powered Protest Crackdown

3 weeks ago | newlinesmag.com | Ylenia Gostoli

Pale-faced and barely out of his teens, it’s hard to say if Onur’s apparently frail demeanor, somewhat in contrast with his height, is a result of his time in detention or simply the way he has always been.
The Israeli Embassy Murders as a Rorschach Test

3 weeks ago | newlinesmag.com | Alexander Ross

On May 21, two staffers for the Israeli Embassy in Washington were gunned down outside a Jewish museum in the American capital. Their names were Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim. They had hopes and dreams. Lischinsky was planning to propose to Milgrim and had already bought the ring. Milgrim’s LinkedIn bio reveals her interests “at the intersection of peacebuilding, religious engagement, and environmental work.” She had a certificate from the United States Institute of Peace.
Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet

3 weeks ago | newlinesmag.com | Kourosh Ziabari

Since Jan. 20, Columbia, Georgetown, Harvard and Tufts universities have been unwittingly competing for media coverage around President Donald Trump’s crackdown on college campuses. In each school, notable students have been targeted for punitive action for similar reasons: expressing views on Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza that the U.S. government doesn’t endorse. An unlikely name in the lineup of targeted schools was the University of Alabama.
The Young Nigerians Reclaiming Magic

4 weeks ago | newlinesmag.com | Tiléwa Kazeem

“Looks like all the beatings I’ve dealt you with my belt haven’t done anything,” Caleb the Magician recalls his father saying when he caught him trying card tricks for the umpteenth time in his bedroom. “Next time, I’ll use my fists.”This wasn’t an empty threat — it was a final warning. In Caleb’s devout Christian home in Benin City, Nigeria, magic wasn’t a hobby; it was blasphemy. Card tricks weren’t clever; they were corrupt.