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Climate, Displacement, and the Gendered Cost of Survival
This article is part of a three-part series called “The Cost of Living in War: A Feminist Reckoning”.
 • Gideon Lim
The Internet as Feminists’ Frontline
How online activists become targets in the digital war
 • Gideon Lim
Why Egypt’s Democratic Transition Failed
Investigating how the Muslim Brotherhood lost its only democratic victory in history
 • Alaa Abdullah and Sequoyah Sudler
"Our Country Has Returned to Us"
Two Syrian refugees reflect on their exile and return
 • Ananya Natchukuri and Sequoyah Sudler
The Last Supper
How one state dinner in 1993 shaped America’s defense industry and foreign policy in the Middle East
 • Sequoyah Sudler
The Wartime Cost of Living
When war makes womens' bodies its territory
 • Gideon Lim
Gaza’s Ceasefire in Context
How the U.S., Israel, and Gaza factions will shape the future of the Gaza Strip
 • Sequoyah Sudler and Alaa Abdullah
Gazans in Jordan
Following the 1948 Nakba (Arabic for “catastrophe”), hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes to other Palestinian…
 • Abd Alrahman M. Abu Attieh
Israel's Airstrikes on Gaza, Visualized
How airstrikes have decimated the Gaza Strip
 • Sequoyah Sudler
The Monster Chicken in the Room
How language kills while billionaires hunt
 • Gideon Lim
Syrians in Jordan Return Home
Departing from a newly expanded bus station in the nation’s capital, Syrians in Jordan chart a journey home. For some it is a two-way trip. For others…
 • Ananya Natchukuri and Alaa Abdullah
Black Refugees in Jordan
Investigating the experiences of black refugees throughout the Arab world
 • Sequoyah Sudler and Alaa Abdullah
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