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06/04/2026

River Ahmad survived a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan in 2014 by pretending to be dead. Years later, after fleeing the country, she is climbing Everest.

follows Ahmad’s journey to the world’s highest peak — a climb she is undertaking for the women and girls back home, and the memory of her brother, who died by su***de.

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📽️ Arwa Damon
📸 Everest.Live_YT

06/04/2026

As plans for overland corridors linking the Gulf to the Mediterranean regain momentum, Syria is being cast as a hub for regional trade. But on the ground, a shattered railway network and aging infrastructure reveal the vast gap between ambition and reality.

joins to discuss whether Syria is really able to serve as a crossroads in the way some are envisioning.

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✍️Pauline Vacher
📽️Kwangu Liwewe Agyei, featuring Pauline Vacher

06/04/2026

From this episode of The Lede, is joined by author Robin Yassin-Kassab to evaluate the Syrian revolution's record in comparison to other uprisings, as well as the nascent state's inheritance one year on.

In his book, "The Blood Between Us: Syria’s Revolutionary Transition," Yassin-Kassab analyzes the revolt's complexities, the necessity of accountability, and the uncertainties defining Syria's future.

🎙️ Hosted by Faisal Al Yafai, featuring Robin Yassin-Kassab
🎧 Produced by Finbar Anderson

Listen to the full episode: https://linktr.ee/theledepodcast

06/04/2026

On this week’s episode of The Lede, journalist and author joins to discuss how ordinary people experience authoritarianism in the 21st century.

In her new book, “From Life Itself,” Hansen reflects on what a decade spent in one Istanbul neighborhood reveals about Turkey under Erdoğan, and why the West so often misunderstands the Middle East.

🎙️ Hosted by Faisal Al Yafai, featuring Suzy Hansen
🎧 Produced by Finbar Anderson

Listen to the full episode: https://linktr.ee/theledepodcast

Check out New Lines’ latest Running Notes, short-form commentary and dispatches from the Middle East and beyond:• A Cham...
06/04/2026

Check out New Lines’ latest Running Notes, short-form commentary and dispatches from the Middle East and beyond:

• A Champions League Final the Gulf Can't Lose -
• As Somalia Unravels, Its Elites Are Absorbed in Their Own Rivalries - Faisal Ali
• The Surprising Reach of Pope Leo’s New Doctrine on AI - and
• A Pro-Netanyahu Video Weaponizes Grievance -
• Twenty-Six Years After Expelling Israel, Hezbollah Has Lost the South Again - Nassim Badani
• Why Indian Conductor Zubin Mehta’s Boycott Felt Like Betrayal in Israel -

📸 Photo courtesy of Emirates Airlines, Mohamud Ismail Kulane/Anadolu, Alberto Pizzoli, Ilia Yefimovich, Marwan Naamani, Uriel Sinai via Getty Images

06/04/2026

By invoking Palestine to criticize DJ Khaled, Drake unintentionally exposed more than celebrity hypocrisy.

speaks with about her New Lines piece on what the exchange reveals about celebrities, moral performance and the way Palestine is talked about in public culture.

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📽️Kwangu Liwewe Agyei, featuring Christin El-Kholy

06/04/2026

Once built on steel, cheap electricity and state planning, South Africa’s Vaal Triangle symbolized the country’s industrial ambition. Today, much of that industry is shrinking or closing. Job losses, failing infrastructure and rising electricity costs have pushed unemployment sharply higher. Co-author Tristen Taylor joins to discuss the impact of deindustrialization on communities left struggling to survive in postapartheid South Africa.

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✍️Tristen Taylor and Nathalie Bertrams
📽️ Kwangu Liwewe Agyei and Tristen Taylor

A century ago, the authenticity of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry became the subject of furious debate. In his New Lines essa...
06/04/2026

A century ago, the authenticity of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry became the subject of furious debate. In his New Lines essay, Mahmoud Habboush argues that one of the most compelling reasons to accept this body of verse at face value is the distinct mindset it reveals, in which humans stand fully within the natural world.

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✍️ Mahmoud Habboush
📸 Joanna Andreasson

06/04/2026

From the latest episode of The Lede podcast: Author and journalist joins for a conversation on the 21st-century experience of authoritarianism for everyday citizens.

Drawing on her book, “From Life Itself," Hansen discusses her 10 years in an Istanbul neighborhood, Turkey during the Erdoğan era and common Western misconceptions regarding the Middle East.

🎙️ Hosted by Faisal Al Yafai, featuring Suzy Hansen
🎧 Produced by Finbar Anderson

Listen to the full episode: https://f.mtr.cool/jpnxhxbkeg

06/04/2026

Israel has become the first nation to formally recognize Somaliland as a sovereign state. is joined by journalist .simon to discuss how officials from both states are framing this historic move as a gateway for economic and developmental partnership. As analysts suggest a deeper geopolitical agenda at play for Israel, the conversation examines the central question: Will Somaliland truly benefit?

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📽️Kwangu Liwewe Agyei and Théophile Simon

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