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A $13 chicken wrap in Beirut has become an unlikely measure of how Lebanon’s economic crisis divides a city.
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Politics · Iran
As Baluch guerrilla attacks grow bolder, Tehran’s grip on its neglected south-east looks increasingly tenuous. Despite mounting war rhetoric with Washington, the Islamic Republic’s most acute security challenge may lie within its borders.
Economy · News Analysis
As the world’s cameras fixed on France in recent weeks, protests and public angst of comparable grievances across the Mediterranean have gone far less noticed.
Society · Briefing
A $13 chicken wrap in Beirut has become an unlikely measure of how Lebanon’s economic crisis divides a city.
Politics · Iran
As Baluch guerrilla attacks grow bolder, Tehran’s grip on its neglected south-east looks increasingly tenuous. Despite mounting war rhetoric with Washington, the Islamic Republic’s most acute security challenge may lie within its borders.
Society · Briefing
A $13 chicken wrap in Beirut has become an unlikely measure of how Lebanon’s economic crisis divides a city.
Opinion · Opinion
Riyadh faces a strategic dilemma: how to defend Saudi territory against Houthi threats without becoming trapped in another open-ended war in Yemen.
“A political culture that averts its gaze from mass graves and works itself into self-righteous hysteria over a foreign presence in an Arab country is a culture that has turned its back on political reason.”
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