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The Woman Drawing Gaza From Inside a Tent
One year after our last interview, Safaa Odah still lives in a tent in Al-Mawasi, the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza. It is from here that the Palestinian cartoonist continues to draw. Despite the ceasefire and hope that the end is near,...
Lebanon Breaks With the Region on the Death Penalty
Lebanon has quite the reputation for making the news for all the wrong reasons. But not this week. On August 11, the Lebanese parliament voted to abolish the death penalty, replacing it with a life sentence and “aggravated hard labor.” Once...
If Disarming Hamas Is the Goal, Why Is Netanyahu Rejecting a Deal to Do It?
During the last three years since October 7 and the outbreak of the war in Gaza, the Israeli government and its political leadership have stated that the dismantling of Hamas’s military capabilities and capacity to strike Israel is one of t...
Hasan Al-Habib on Iraq, Family, and Laughing Through Pain
Hasan Al-Habib was supposed to be in Iraq in April. It would have been only his second visit to the country where much of his family history is rooted. But at that point the war was still raging between Iran, Israel, and the United States,...
The Stray Dogs of War
When I visited Benghazi last November, a coffee shop perched above the Mediterranean had become one of the main attractions along the city's newly renovated corniche. Yet beyond its mesmerizing view, the war's wreckage still spanned the cit...
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Faisal Saeed Al Mutar is a social entrepreneur and media executive with extensive experience in economic development, innovation, and nonprofit leadership. Founder and President of Ideas Beyond Borders
British-Palestinian writer. Focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but also dipping toes into history, economics, futurism, statistics, technology, etc.
Afghanistan Program Director at Ideas Beyond Borders. Writer and reporter for the Middle East Uncovered.
Iram Ramzan is a journalist and commentator, with a focus on foreign affairs and social issues, particularly on British Muslims. Huge Bollywood fan. Co-host of the Taking The Myth podcast, an award-winning monthly sceptical show.
Senior writer at Middle East Uncovered, a publication of Ideas Beyond Borders. Journalist and photographer covering the MENA region
Palestinian writer | Speaker in Germany. Author of Muscheln am Strand von Gaza (S. Fischer 2026).
Human interest reporting on war with Tim Mak | Iran War Dispatches | The Counteroffensive
Lebanese researcher in Marketing and communication, based in the UK. I explore how people and ideas move through communication, exploring why some stories persuade and others fade. I'm interested in Middle Eastern politics, and appalled by it .
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