Politics · News Analysis
The Great Standoff
Britain is pressing Israel over settlements; Israel is pressing back through diplomatic access. A recent compromise shows the limits of both.
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The bill for the Middle East war is coming due
As the World Bank and IMF meet in Bangkok from 12–18 October, the Iran war’s economic fallout is straining energy-importing economies, threatening food security and testing how far the World Bank and Gulf states can go to cushion the blow.
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Economy
Economy
Economy · News Analysis
The bill for the Middle East war is coming due
As the World Bank and IMF meet in Bangkok from 12–18 October, the Iran war’s economic fallout is straining energy-importing economies, threatening food security and testing how far the World Bank and Gulf states can go to cushion the blow.
Society
Culture · Briefing
A sacred tree, a hard harvest
In the Levant, the olive feeds, employs and sanctifies, and each autumn it calls families back to the grove.
Culture
Culture · Briefing
A sacred tree, a hard harvest
In the Levant, the olive feeds, employs and sanctifies, and each autumn it calls families back to the grove.
In their words
“The neopatriarchal state, regardless of its legal and political forms and structures, is in many ways no more than a modernized version of the traditional patriarchal sultanate.”
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