The club built two of the game’s new defining models. The verdict against it, coming as war with Iran squeezes Arab economies ...

New Lines Editorial Director Rasha Elass and contributing writer Farea Al-Muslimi discuss the growing threat to international ...

John Duerden has lived in four countries in Asia and has covered sport on the continent for over 25 years, for various Asian ...

Wars do not alter the balance of power only when cities fall; it also shifts when geography acquires new value. This is precisely what has happened in Yemen, on its western coast in particular. Twelve ...

Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces at the Jabal Han front west of the city of Taiz on Oct. 3, 2026. (Ahmad al-Basha/AFP via Getty Images) Saudi media appears to be celebrating major victories ...

I met the women on a Sunday, their only day off. The temperature in Malatya, a city in eastern Turkey, was 122 degrees. They had dressed carefully — light makeup, fresh nail polish, their finest ...

In sixth-century Arabia, a man wakes up at night and begins to saddle his she-camel, something he must have done countless times, and she’s tired of it. The man is al-Muthaqqib al-Abdi, a pre-Islamic ...

Mohammad Sharafi, left, who survived the strikes at the Minab school on Feb. 28, 2026, with heavy burn marks, with his brother Ali, Sept. 23, 2026, Konarju, Iran. (Erfan Kouchari) At nearly 104 ...

A writer journeys through Hormozgan province, from Bandar Abbas fish market to the graves of Minab's schoolchildren and a bombed wedding in Kuhestak, where residents say the ceasefire never arrived.

Koshary, an Egyptian pasta and rice dish, at Marhaba restaurant in Tysons Corner, Virginia, Oct. 13, 2021. (Deb Lindsey/The Washington Post via Getty Images) The first time I told my wife, who is from ...

A writer journeys through Hormozgan province, from Bandar Abbas fish market to the graves of Minab's schoolchildren and a bombed wedding in Kuhestak, where residents say the ceasefire never arrived.

South Korean soccer player Son Heung-min raises a gold medal at the 18th Asian Games on Sept. 1, 2018. (Allsport Co./Getty Images) “Nobody calls Son Heung-min a bastard” is not a threat but a ...