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🧵 Today is Earth Day! 🌍Over the past year, @newlinesmag.bsky.social  has continued to publish reporting from different regions on how environmental change is unfolding on the ground: through land loss, industrial policy and the uneven effects of climate disasters. https://newlinesmag.com/

The Long Shadow of the Iran-Iraq War The bloody eight-year conflict continues to shape the strategic culture of the Islamic Republic, and might offer lessons for the present

The Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s cast a long shadow that looms over the current conflict. @dannypostel.bsky.social  and @faisalalyafai.bsky.social  explain how it gave rise to ideas and slogans like “sacred defense” that continue to shape Tehran's strategies.

A Suicide Breaks Through the Silence The livestreamed act by an influencer has challenged social stigma while casting light on the pressures facing Egyptian women

"Suicide in Egypt is often underreported or euphemized, even in death records. Families sometimes resist acknowledging it outright, and official data remains unreliable at best."
@chriselkholy.bsky.social  on how Passant Soliman's death has broken a silence.

How Syria’s Revolution Was Misunderstood, by Its Rulers and the World Across five books, a portrait emerges of an uprising shaped by division at home and blindness abroad

“If Syria is to succeed, healing the bonds between its divided communities is even more essential than making connections with the outside world.” 
@qunfuz.bsky.social reviews five books on the Syrian revolution.

Amid US Pressure and a Deepening Crisis, Cubans Are Braced for Change With prolonged blackouts, empty water tabs and crippling inflation, daily life on the island has become untenable

With prolonged blackouts, empty water taps and crippling inflation, daily life in Cuba has become untenable. Most citizens are wary of American military intervention but are bracing for change

Slopaganda Comes of Age The Trump paradox was always that he could be taken seriously without being taken literally, but that may no longer hold

In one of our current top reads, @faisalalyafai.bsky.social  and @chriselkholy.bsky.social  look at “slopaganda,” the use of AI-generated content for political propaganda, arguing that Trump’s base is now taking his memes both literally and seriously

Far From the Land of Good News A writer wrestles with her deep connection to southern Lebanon, and the helplessness of watching from abroad as Hezbollah and Israeli bombs foreclose the possibility of return

Read @nadabakri.bsky.social's first-person essay on her deep connection to southern Lebanon, and the helplessness of watching from abroad as Hezbollah and Israeli bombs foreclose the possibility of return.

The Last Temptation of Trump at the End of a Failed War The president has backed himself into a corner where making a deal with Iran risks appearing, in his eyes, like a humiliating failure

Trump has backed himself into a corner with Iran. Any deal risks appearing, in his eyes, like a humiliating failure. The weight of that constraint presents a dangerous dynamic as he threatens escalation

A Suicide Breaks Through the Silence The livestreamed act by an influencer has challenged social stigma while casting light on the pressures facing Egyptian women

"[Passant] Soliman’s tragic story is about systemic injustice, about personal endurance, about motherhood and, ultimately, about loss. And it is those myriad meanings that continue to shape the empathy she receives." | @chriselkholy.bsky.social 

Indians Are Celebrating the Moon Landing — One Song at a Time After the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, the country is revisiting its lunar-themed pop culture

From the @newlinesmag.bsky.social  archives:
Ever since the news arrived that India had landed on the moon, Indians have been euphoric. One of the ways they’ve celebrated is by revisiting the pop culture dedicated to it, writes @surbhigupta.bsky.social .

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In Syria's Quneitra, Israeli soldiers raid homes, set up checkpoints and shoot cattle. Residents describe a fragile situation and a government in Damascus that lacks the means to push back newlinesmag.com/spotlight/life-under-isr...

Iraq’s Militias Are in a Struggle for Survival As the last intact members of the ‘Axis of Resistance,’ the Shiite factions have taken up arms to support Tehran, but their fate depends on the outcome of US-Iran negotiations

"Economically tied to the U.S. yet politically aligned with Iran, Iraq walks a precarious line. The resolution of its political deadlock will likely depend on the outcome of ongoing negotiations."
Sami Zaïbi reports from Baghdad on Iraq's Shiite militias.

How Syria’s Revolution Was Misunderstood, by Its Rulers and the World Across five books, a portrait emerges of an uprising shaped by division at home and blindness abroad

NEW: Syria’s revolution was first crushed, and then misread. @qunfuz.bsky.social reviews five recent books that are correcting the record on the country's long uprising and its surprising aftermath, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social . newlinesmag.com/review/how-s...

New Lines Magazine 31 likes, 2 comments. "US-Israeli Attacks on Iran Show a Pattern of ‘Double-Tap’ Strikes"

WATCH: @kayliwewe.bsky.social  speaks with @chrisosieck.bsky.social  & @ntabrizy.bsky.social  on their recent investigation into “double-tap” strikes in the U.S.-Israel campaign in Iran, which are raising questions about targeting and civilian harm.

From AI videos mocking Trump in the Iran war to the White House’s own meme-making, “slopaganda” is less about persuasion and more about capturing "some emotional truth," write @faisalalyafai.bsky.social  & @chriselkholy.bsky.social . newlinesmag.com/spotlight/slopaganda-com...

Why Every Lebanese Crisis Feels Worse Than the Last Journalists Nada Bakri and Zahra Hankir join Faisal Al Yafai on the podcast to discuss the latest strikes on Lebanon.

“Every time we get through a crisis, we look back and wish we can go back to the crisis just before.” Nada Bakri and Zahra Hankir join @faisalalyafai.bsky.social  on The Lede to discuss Israel’s strikes on Lebanon and watching your country's destruction from afar.

What Viktor Orbán’s Defeat Means for the American Right Viktor Orbán’s defeat in Hungary’s election on Sunday to Péter Magyar of the center-right Tisza Party is widely seen as a repudiation not only of the prime minister’s 16 years in power, but of U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who went to Budapest to stump for the right-wing Hungarian incumbent in the final stretch of […]

What does Victor Orbán’s defeat in Hungary’s election last week mean for his many devotees on the American right? @newlinesmag.bsky.social  Politics Editor @dannypostel.bsky.social  explores.

Iraq’s Militias Are in a Struggle for Survival As the last intact members of the ‘Axis of Resistance,’ the Shiite factions have taken up arms to support Tehran, but their fate depends on the outcome of US-Iran negotiations

NEW: Iraqi Shiite militias are now the last intact link in Iran’s “Axis of Resistance.” As war reshapes the region, they are fighting for survival — politically, militarily and ideologically, reports Sami Zaïbi from Baghdad for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/reportage/ir...

Kuwait Is Stripping Its People of Citizenship at an Unprecedented Rate Behind the language of legality, the new emir has pushed a political project to narrow national identity and roll back decades of democratic reform

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Fatimah Muhammed and @alamer.bsky.social report on Kuwait’s widening citizenship revocation campaign, which has seen tens of thousands stripped of their nationality, and the history that made it possible.

Life Under Israeli Occupation in Syria's Quneitra Over a year after the fall of Assad, foreign forces have pushed past the 1974 buffer zone, where residents describe raids, checkpoints and a fragile accommodation

NEW: In Syria's Quneitra, Israeli soldiers raid homes, set up checkpoints and shoot cattle. Residents describe a fragile accommodation and a government in Damascus that lacks the means to push back, reports Anagha Nair for @newlinesmag.bsky.social . newlinesmag.com/spotlight/li...

Amid US Pressure and a Deepening Crisis, Cubans Are Braced for Change With prolonged blackouts, empty water tabs and crippling inflation, daily life on the island has become untenable

NEW: As U.S. pressure mounts on Cuba, daily life on the island has become impossible. Most citizens are wary of American military intervention but want some way out of the crisis — “something, anything,” reports Eileen Sosin Martínez for @newlinesmag.bsky.social . newlinesmag.com/reportage/am...

A Suicide Breaks Through the Silence The livestreamed act by an influencer has challenged social stigma while casting light on the pressures facing Egyptian women

NEW: Passant Soliman ended her life while livestreaming on Facebook. In Egypt, where suicide is almost always shrouded in denial, the episode has challenged social stigma, writes @chriselkholy.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social . newlinesmag.com/spotlight/a-...

A short excerpt from my conversation with @faisalalyafai.bsky.social of @newlinesmag.bsky.social about the intimacy of the violence committed against the Bosniak community during the Bosnian War and the Bosnian Genocide, and the long term consequences of the same.

New Lines Magazine 35 likes, 2 comments. "Hopelessness and Love in an Israeli Prison"

Toby Lichtig joins @kayliwewe.bsky.social  to discuss his profile of Nasser Abu Srour, who was freed in a hostage exchange after 33 years in an Israeli prison and then exiled to Cairo.

Kuwait Is Stripping Its People of Citizenship at an Unprecedented Rate Behind the language of legality, the new emir has pushed a political project to narrow national identity and roll back decades of democratic reform

In Kuwait, mass citizenship revocations have become policy: Tens of thousands have been stripped of nationality under an expanding campaign to roll back decades of reform. Fatimah Muhammed and @alamer.bsky.social  report from the ground

Amid US Pressure and a Deepening Crisis, Cubans Are Braced for Change With prolonged blackouts, empty water tabs and crippling inflation, daily life on the island has become untenable

“Most Cubans who spoke with @newlinesmag.bsky.social  expressed wariness about the possibility of a U.S. invasion. All of them, however, voiced a desire for some kind of change, because conditions on the island have become untenable.”

Life Under Israeli Occupation in Syria's Quneitra Over a year after the fall of Assad, foreign forces have pushed past the 1974 buffer zone, where residents describe raids, checkpoints and a fragile accommodation

Over a year after the collapse of the Assad regime, Israeli forces have moved deep into and beyond the demilitarized buffer zone established by the 1974 disengagement agreement. Residents in Quneitra describe the calculus of accommodation under the occupiers.