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The best of the long read in 2025
ByMiddle East and north Africa | The Guardian December 23, 2025

Our 20 favourite pieces of in-depth reporting, essays and profiles from the yearVictor Pelevin made his name in 90s Russia with scathing satires of authoritarianism. But while his literary peers have faced censorship and fled the country, he still sell…

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Why Bethlehem is celebrating Christmas again – podcast
By December 23, 2025

Pastor Munther Isaac talks about his hometown of Bethlehem – the scene of the nativity – celebrating Christmas for the first time in three yearsThis December, for the first time in three years, Bethlehem turned on its Christmas lights.For the place in …

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Pope Leo tells Lebanese leaders ‘peace is a desire and a vocation’ – video
ByMiddle East and north Africa | The Guardian November 30, 2025

Pope Leo XIV delivered a speech in Lebanon on Sunday where he repeated his call for representatives to do their part to help achieve peace in the region. Speaking in a room with several senior government and religious figures, the pope praised the Leba…

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Pope Leo urges Lebanese leaders to make peace highest priority
ByReuters in Beirut November 30, 2025

Pontiff tells politicians and religious heads they must persevere with peace efforts despite facing ‘highly complex, conflictual’ situationPope Leo has urged political leaders in Lebanon to make peace their highest priority in a forceful appeal as he i…

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Pope Leo urges Lebanese leaders to make peace highest priority
ByReuters in Beirut November 30, 2025

Pontiff tells politicians and religious heads they must persevere with peace efforts despite facing ‘highly complex, conflictual’ situationPope Leo has urged political leaders in Lebanon to make peace their highest priority in a forceful appeal as he i…

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Pope Leo warns of risk from ‘piecemeal’ world war in first overseas trip
ByAngela Giuffrida in Rome and Ruth Michaelson in Damascus November 27, 2025November 27, 2025

Leo welcomed by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as he begins six-day itinerary that will also include visit to LebanonA new world war is being fought “piecemeal” and is endangering the future of humanity, Pope Leo has warned, as he arrived in Turkey for his first…

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Climate crisis or a warning from God? Iranians desperate for answers as water dries up
ByPatrick Wintour in Tehran November 16, 2025

As rainy season fails to bring relief, authorities try cloud seeding – while others across the country pray for a miracleWater, and its absence, has become Iran’s national obsession. In the mosques of northern Tehran the imams have been praying for rai…

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‘They told me not to speak out’: the woman who took on China – and won her husband’s freedom
ByTom Levitt October 23, 2025

After fleeing Chinese repression, Uyghurs Idris and Zeynure Hasan thought their family would be safe. But Beijing’s growing influence led to Idris’s arrest and a long battle to be reunitedZeynure Hasan was at home in Istanbul in July 2021 when her husb…

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The origins of today’s conflict between American Jews over Israel – podcast
By October 20, 2025

In the early years, American Jewish support for Israel was a fraught issue. The turning point was the six-day war of 1967, which solidified a strength of feeling that has only recently begun to fractureBy Mark Mazower. Read by Kerry Shale Continue rea…

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The Zionist consensus among US Jews has collapsed. Something new is emerging | Shaul Magid
ByShaul Magid October 7, 2025

Two years after the 7 October massacre and the onset of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, American Jewry has been profoundly transformedIt has been two years since the mass murder on 7 October 2023, an event that shook world Jewry more than any event since t…

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