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Netflix Watching Israeli TV’s Fauda as a Palestinian
The Netflix show makes for some unconventional Ramadan viewing.
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Kamran Jebreili / AP The Middle East’s Growing Space Ambitions
“Very few people could name an Arab astronaut or scientist, even in many Arab countries.”
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Atheists Are Sometimes More Religious Than Christians
A new study shows how poorly we understand the beliefs of people who identify as atheist, agnostic, or nothing in particular.
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Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters Ireland's Very Secular Vote on Abortion
The Catholic Church was instrumental in passing the country’s strict abortion laws. Now it’s all but absent from the referendum about whether to repeal them.
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Yara Nardi / Reuters The Pope's Turnaround on Sex Abuse May Have a ‘Tsunami Effect’
Francis is trying to fix a series of “grave errors” in Chile, and allegedly affirmed the gay identity of a victim there.
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Reuters A Black Bishop Brings a Political Message to the Royal Wedding
The head of the Episcopal Church spoke about poverty, hunger, and war during Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s nuptials.
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Ammar Awad / Reuters Jerusalem’s Ramadan Is Different This Year
The Muslim holy month began during a dramatic and deadly week in a region where even religious events are shrouded in politics.
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Seraj Assi / The Atlantic Why My Father Made Me Forget Our Palestinian Catastrophe
How does a boy growing up in Israel remember how many of his people lost their homes in 1948, if no one will teach him?
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Rebecca Cook / Reuters The End of Trump Won't Be the End of Trumpism
A new book—tweeted out by the president himself—argues that America is in the midst of a populist realignment.
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Ronen Zvulun / Reuters Trump Keeps Claiming That the Jerusalem Embassy Will Bring Peace
His administration is refusing to own up to the real consequences that his decision will have on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Baz Ratner / Reuters Celebration in Jerusalem, Bloodshed in Gaza
The new American embassy opens during a chaotic and violent week in the Middle East—and it's just the beginning.
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Alaa Al-Marjani / Reuters A Shia Cleric's Radical Vision for Iraq
Moqtada al-Sadr has transformed himself—and could emerge a kingmaker after elections this weekend.
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Tanya Habjouqa A Muslim Among Israeli Settlers
What happens when a Pakistani American writer goes deep into the West Bank?
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Margaret Hagan A Design Lab Is Making Rituals for Secular People
Will it work?
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters There’s More to Being Jewish Than Fighting Anti-Semitism
A new book looks at the fight against resurgent hatred in Trump’s America, but its prescriptions can’t address the other crisis facing American Judaism.
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Mohammed Salem / Reuters Muslims Recoil at a French Proposal to Change the Quran
Some of France’s most prominent figures, concerned about anti-Semitism, have signed a shocking manifesto aimed at curbing it.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Trump Creates a Not-So-New Faith Office in the White House
The president’s initiative sounds a lot like those of Barack Obama and George W. Bush. But the religious influences on Trump’s government are radically different.
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Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters Competing Visions of Islam Will Shape Europe in the 21st Century
Akbar Ahmed’s new book deals with how migration is reshaping the continent, and whether leaders can cope.
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Alessandra Benedetti / Corbis / Getty Artificial Intelligence Is Cracking Open the Vatican's Secret Archives
A new project untangles the handwritten texts in one of the world’s largest historical collections.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters Is Germany Capable of Protecting Its Jews?
The nation’s recent intake of migrants from places where anti-Semitism is ubiquitous has produced a scary tension—and one that’s not easy to resolve.
