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‘I Was Not Going to Accept It’: After Captivity, Blind Syrian Forges Path to U.S.

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The Untold Quiet of Kurdish Iraq

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ISIS Damages Temple of Baal in Palmyra

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Under Lockdown in Italy’s Coronavirus-Quarantine Zone

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Preparing Prisons for Passover in a Plague Year 

Sci-fi types of medical implants will soon become reality, researchers say

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How virtual reality therapy can help make bad memories more manageable

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Traditional school isn’t always the way to go, and I wish my parents had seen that earlier

There’s Been a Global Increase in Armed Groups. Can They Be Restrained?

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In the United States, His Problem Wasn’t the Taliban. It Was Everything Else.

The Body-Pullers of Raqqa

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A Murderer Turned Crime Blogger

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Inside The Haywire World of Beirut's Electricity Brokers

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Letter From Qaraqosh: Taking ISIS Fighters to Court

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Letter From Mosul: The Future of Iraq's Shiite Militias After ISIS' Defeat

The Devil's Henchmen

Arabic Version

An Ominous Future for Kurdistan's Minorities

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A Degree in Beer, Wine, and Kombucha

"Lands of Metamorphosis" columnist and contributing writer on the Middle East.

Building Fences

You Can't Go Home Again

A Harsh Homecoming

After ISIS

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How Germany's refugee dream soured

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Iraq’s ancient splits widen: why the Kurds voted to secede

The European fighters who battled Isis – and were abandoned by their governments 

Military Exercises Feared to Be Cover for Putin’s Secret Weapons Plan

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The Inside Story of How Trump ‘Kept the Oil’ in Syria and Lost

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The meteorite hunters: the booming trade in space rocks

The waterkeeper of Iraq

The New York Times

• "Federal Inquiry Scrutinizes Chattanooga Gunman’s Travel and Texts"

• "After 2 Years of Hoping, Upstate New York Family Has Few Leads on Man Who Vanished"

• "A Columbia County Nest That Came Fully Feathered"

• "Wes Craven, Whose Slasher Films Terrified Millions, Dies at 76"

• "John C. Willke, Doctor Who Led Fight Against Abortion, Dies at 89"

• "A Text That Read ‘Active Shooter,’ Then Silence

• "A Racket Maestro Makes His Yearly Migration"

• "ReBar, Once a Brooklyn Wedding Destination, Is Now a Neighborhood Blight"

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New York Magazine

• "An Exemplary Abjection Rejection"

• "Roomba’s Long, Bumpy Path From Prototype to Your Living Room"
   

Tin House

• "On J.R. Moehringer's 'The Tender Bar'"
   

The Rumpus

• "Out The Road"

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Narratively​

• "The Night My Parents Had Me Kidnapped"

• "Drunken Expectations"

• "True Lies" 

• [... more]

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Brooklyn Based

• "The Lobster Shift"

• [all columns]

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Anxy

• "Every Day Was Striking"

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HuffPost

• [...full archive]

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Roads & Kingdoms

• "Tel Aviv Vibes on a Cloudy Brooklyn Day"

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Popula

• "A Naughty Man"

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Tablet

• "My Son’s Bris Brought Me Back to Judaism"

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Juvenile Justice Information Exchange

• "Lawmakers, federal investigators target teen facilities billed as therapeutic but accused of abuse"

Pacific Standard Magazine

• "You Can't Stay Here (but the Alternatives Are Better)"

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Guernica

• "When a Clean Record Can’t Change its Spots"

• "The Case For Expungement"

• "Spice Use There, is Drug Use Everywhere"

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VICE

• "Talking to Two Federal Drug Offenders About Getting Out Early"

• "How America’s Criminal Justice System Traps Low-Level Offenders"

• "Why Is New York’s Juvenile Justice System Still Such a Disaster?"​

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Village Voice

• "Barry Boonshaft Just Wants His Fashion Due"
   

Playboy

• "Alone Together in Patagonia"

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Hazlitt

• "The Lucky Ones"

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Creative Nonfiction

• "Addiction Memoir, or Coming-of-Age Tale?"

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Outside Magazine

• "An Ode to the Imperfect, 21st-Century American Cabin"

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Nowhere Magazine

• "Wuthering Travels"

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The Big Roundtable

• "When a Felon Casts Her Vote"

• "Notes From My Suicide"

• [... more]

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The Atticus Review

• "Flying Solo: A Snapshot of Travel Anxiety"

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Mr. Beller's Neighborhood

• "Revo, Like Revolution"

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Mashable

• [...full archive]
   

Italics Magazine

• "On an Unglorified, Little-Trekked Hemingway Trail in Northern Italy"
   

Catholic News Service

• "CNEWA trustees meet Lebanese, refugees who benefit from their projects"