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In Qatari crisis, migrant workers caught in the middle

Global Politics

Says one worker: “If this continues, there will be problems for people like us, the workers. The price of food will go up and there will be no jobs.”

Pain lingers one year after Hajj tragedy in Saudi Arabia

Belief
An Egyptian women shops at a vegetable market in Cairo, Egypt

Learn Arabic in just 25 years

Culture
An internally displaced girl waits for her turn to receive food at a school in Sanaa May 17, 2015. Residents were forced to leave their homes in the nearby province of Saada amidst Saudi-led air strikes.

Yemenis are terrorized by a weapon made in America, sold to the Saudis

Conflict
boy walks as he collects toys from the rubble of a house destroyed by a recent air strike in Yemen's northwestern city of Saada

Who’s winning the war in Yemen?

Conflict
Adele Raemer's safe room in her home on a kibbutz in Nirim on Israel's border with Gaza.

Israelis on the border with Gaza race to ‘safe rooms’ when sirens wail

Conflict & Justice

Adele Raemer’s daughter had dreamed of celebrating her wedding on her kibbutz in Nirim on Israel’s border with Gaza. But the flare-up of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians changed all that and has many local residents feeling insecure. Adele Raemer’s daughter had dreamed of celebrating her wedding on her kibbutz in Nirim on Israel’s border with Gaza. But the flare-up of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians changed all that and has many local residents feeling insecure.

A Beirut artist participates in an event staged by a municipality controlled by Hezbollah to honor those killed in a wave of car bombings in Lebanon.

Hezbollah claims to be fighting in Syria to protect Lebanon. But the result is violence in Lebanon

Conflict & Justice

Hezbollah says it’s fighting alongside government forces in Syria to prevent violence from coming home to Lebanon. Some in Lebanon say Hezbollah is the one bringing the violence home.Hezbollah says it’s fighting alongside government forces in Syria to prevent violence from coming home to Lebanon. Some in Lebanon say Hezbollah is the one bringing the violence home.

Kurds call it the "martyr cemetery." Dozens of freshly-covered graves have stretched its boundaries.

In Syria, Kurds are fighting their own war against Islamists, and winning

Conflict & Justice

Kurdish areas of Syria have recently been threatened by Islamist fighters. But a 50,000-strong Kurdish military force is reclaiming their land, village by village.

Julia Simon imagines what's going through the mind of a man harassing her on the street in Cairo.

So, how long have you been harassing women like this?

Lifestyle & Belief

For women in Egypt, harassment on the street is a constant. Reporter Julia Simon got so tired of it that one day, she decided to interview the man harassing her.

Karim Shamsi-Basha, who moved from Syria to attend the University of Tennessee in the 1980s, stands with his father, Kheridean Shamsi-Basha.

In his first days in the US, a Syrian Muslim connected with Americans through the Bible

Lifestyle & Belief

When Karim Shamsi-Basha arrived in the US as a student, he found that Americans had already heard of his birthplace, Damascus. But he couldn’t understand why, until he looked in the Bible.