Iran

A Nation Between War and Memory

Swapan Dasgupta

Five hundred days after the October 7 attack, Israeli hostages are coming home as part of a fragile peace deal. Swapan Dasgupta travels across an Israel where hope is tempered with existential anxiety. A dispatch

Chinese Medicine

Sudeep Paul

A Tale of Two Pardons | Tracking Tehran

Trump and the New Middle East

Sudeep Paul

The 47th president’s West Asian friends and enemies have set him new challenges

The Long Road to Reform

Deepika Saraswat

Masoud Pezeshkian’s victory is a message for Iran’s Ayatollahs

The Silence of the Sheikhs

Minhaz Merchant

The fear of the Arab Street and Washington

Axis

S Prasannarajan

Iran’s proxy wars cannot conceal the last gasps of a revolution

A Dangerous New World

Jason Burke

The consequences of Hamas’ attack will spiral out, bringing disruptive changes to the long-running conflict in Israel-Palestine, to the Middle East and as far afield as South Asia