Hidden Cities
Frederick Deknatel, Hossam el-Hamalawy, Amal Ghandour, Adam Makary, Yasser Elsheshtawy, Hagai El-AdPart travelogue, part global news brief, Hidden Cities is a magazine that illuminates the world.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 35 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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Iran Won't Give Up Its Leverage Over Hormuz
A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer near the Strait of Hormuz, April 11, 2026. (Photo via U.S. Central Command)
Ben Soodavar
Ben Soodavar is a lecturer in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London.
Hidden Cities is a magazi...
Returning to Syria's Sea of Rubble
The ruins stretched for mile after mile. We drove on over dust to what had once been the suburbs of Damascus.
By Robin Yassin-Kassab
How the Iran War Shattered the Gulf's Illusions of Stability
The image of a well-heeled safe haven is hard to reconcile with air raid sirens and sudden explosions of missiles and drones.
The following is an excerpt from my new piece in World Politics Review, published earlier this week. Read the ful...
'Both Sides of the Looking Glass,' a Poem by Adam Makary
A strike on Beirut lands in Cairo. It lands anywhere anyone is still listening.
For days, the drones had been flying low over Beirut. On our calls, their buzzing was constant, a sound that never left the conversation.
Scholar Dalia Ghanem on the End of the Gulf’s Gilded Age
For Gulf states fearing the Iran war’s fallout, “narrative control is economic survival.”
In April, Dalia Ghanem, a scholar based at a think tank in Qatar, published an article with the German Marshall Fund on how the Iran war had abruptly...
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Part travelogue, part global news brief, Hidden Cities is a magazine that illuminates the world. Founded and edited by Frederick Deknatel.
Researching militaries, security services, and counterrevolutions.
> Author: About This Man Called Ali; This Arab Life, A Generation’s Journey Into Silence. Blogger: This Arab Life. Senior Strategy Adviser Ruwwad al Tanmeyah, a region-wide community development initiative that spans Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon.
I am a Non-Resident Scholar at AGSIW (Washington, DC) and Adjunct Professor at Columbia GSAPP. Author of *Riyadh*, *Temporary Cities*, *Dubai*, and *Arab Modernism(s)*, with *My Cairo* forthcoming.
Intermittently writing, hiking, or balcony gardening. Alive in Jerusalem. Formerly B'Tselem, ACRI, Jerusalem Open House. Once upon a time Center for Astrophysics.
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