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Women Are Fueling ISIS’s Comeback

Haid Haid
Haid Haid

On August 28, Syrian Kurdish security forces backed by the United States launched an operation targeting ISIS sleeper cells in the Al-Hol camp, in northeast Syria. The mission was intended to stabilize the detention facility, which holds thousands of internally displaced people and families of suspected ISIS members. But more than a month after the raids began – and despite hundreds of arrests – ISIS remains entrenched in Al-Hol. Violence in the camp has reached record levels, and at least 44 people have been killed this

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Culture

‘We Want to See UAE Rugby Teams Competing at the Olympics’

Mark Lomas
Mark Lomas

There were many great stories out of the Rugby World Cup, which brought the sport’s global elite together in France and wrapped with South Africa nabbing the prestigious William Webb-Ellis trophy. One was Portugal — not a traditional rugby nation — making their debut at the tournament and recording an emotional first victory over Fiji. The UAE is at an even more embryonic stage than Portugal in its rugby evolution but, for the past decade, former professional Apollo Perelini has been working to create a rugby infrastructure

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Media

Farah Al Qasimi’s 2016 work: Living Room Vape

The Weekly Memo

Al Qasimi is one leader among the trail of Emirati women artists behind and beside her, whose practice has flourished with time and the instrumental polish of major international training and recognition.

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A track delimited burnt trees to a forest in Mugla district

Photos: Deadly Wildfires Along Turkey’s Coast

Recently, dozens of wildfires have erupted across southern and western Turkey as a dangerous heat wave lingers over southeastern Europe. For the past week, villages and resorts along the Mediterranean and Aegean coastlines have been overtaken by

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Dr Nasr Al Jafari, immunity

Dr Nasr Al Jafari on Long-Covid

Livehealthy Mag

Livehealthy editor Ann Marie McQueen talks to Dr Nasr Al Jafari about what people struggling with long-Covid can do to get back to health, advice that is pretty good for the rest of us too.

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Naftali Bennett and the New Hard Line in Israeli Politics

The New Yorker

In 2013, David Remnick published a profile of Naftali Bennett. Remnick wrote that Bennett was something new in Israeli politics, a man who would “build a sturdy electoral bridge between the religious and the secular, the hilltop outposts of the

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Book Review
Book Review
Lebanese author Hoda Barakat’s ‘Voices of the Lost’ is a dark, profound novel
Hoda Barakat
CHICAGO: Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, “Voices...
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Film Review
Film Review
It Must Be Heaven review – Palestine’s holy fool lives the dream
Elia Suleiman
The Palestinian film-maker Elia Suleiman, dishevelled yet dapper at all...
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