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The Taliban have inherited a colossal #mentalhealth crisis, reports Lyunzy Billing from #Afghanistan in New Lines.
Read: https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/kabuls-mental-health-crisis-spirals-out-of-control/
The cover story from our first print edition raises a question that has been minimally contested: Who really invented paper?
New Lines' Lydia Wilson reports on evidence in the Sinai Peninsula that Egyptians used paper more than 2,000 years before the Chinese.
https://newlinesmag.com/essays/discovery-of-who-invented-paper/
NEW: Moscow’s role in the Katyn massacres during WWII offers a lesson for Ukraine today: how to turn memory into a form of resistance.
https://newlinesmag.com/essays/historical-perspectives-on-russias-war-crimes-in-ukraine/
War in Ukraine and Ethiopia, the death of the queen and 100 years since the fall of the Ottomans: As the world looks ahead to 2023,
New Lines' Joshua Martin looks back at some of the key events of 2022 and how we tried to make sense of it all on “The Lede" podcast.
https://newlinesmag.com/podcast/how-2022-changed-the-world-and-what-to-expect-from-2023/
An Academic Is Fired Over a Medieval Painting of the Prophet Muhammad
"The images were made ... by Muslim artists for Muslim patrons in respect for, & in exaltation of, Muhammad & the Quran. They are, by definition, Islamophilic from their inception to their reception.
"How did Hamline arrive at such a flawed conclusion?"
Read: https://newlinesmag.com/argument/academic-is-fired-over-a-medieval-painting-of-the-prophet-muhammad/
NEW: Ahead of the FIFA World Cup, as humongous cutouts of Messi, Ronaldo and Neymar appeared in the south Indian state of Kerala, its fan wars and soccer frenzy have made headlines in a country crazy for cricket, Susan Ninan writes for @newlinesmag@mastodon.world
https://newlinesmag.com/newsletter/making-sense-of-soccer-fever-in-india/
NEW: From Iran to Afghanistan and beyond, authorities use religious pretexts to police everything from women's clothing to TikTok videos. In
@newlinesmag@mastodon.world, Mustafa Akyol traces the dubious roots of these supposedly Islamic “morality police” forces.
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-dubious-roots-of-religious-police-in-islam/
NEW: After a lifetime of political activism and persecution, Anwar Ibrahim is now prime minister of Malaysia. His life story offers clues to the type of government he may now lead, argues his biographer CharlesAllers in
@newlinesmag@mastodon.world.
https://newlinesmag.com/argument/anwar-ibrahims-long-road-to-power/
NEW: African teams have repeatedly failed to meet fans' expectations at the soccer World Cup. Osasu Obayiuwana
reports on the mismanagement that has led to Africa's failure on the international stage.
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/why-africa-fails-at-the-world-cup/
🎙 NEW: In this episode of @newlinesmag@mastodon.world's "Wider Angle," Shrayana Bhattacharya joins Riada Asimovic Akyol to talk about common grievances and aspirations of a diverse group of women in post-liberalization India, through the prism of Shah Rukh Khan’s fandom.
Listen or watch here:
https://newlinesmag.com/podcast/young-indian-womens-aspirations-and-shah-rukh-khans-fandom-with-shrayana-bhattacharya/
NEW: Mosques, museums and the metaverse are crisscrossing in an increasingly virtual world, spurring inventions on the one hand and injunctions on the other, writes Christiane Gruber in @newlinesmag@mastodon.world
NEW: After many years of absence, Nizar Kinaan returned to Syria to find a fundamentally altered society, despite the grim show of strength he faced from the security services.
https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/an-exile-returns-to-find-syria-changed-forever/
NEW: Cholera continues to rip through Syria, the result of longstanding problems of contaminated drinking and irrigation water. But citizens are numb after over a decade of war.
Suhaib Anjarini reports for @newlinesmag@mastodon.world
https://newlinesmag.com/newsletter/how-cholera-came-to-torment-syria/
NEW: Putin's war has sparked grassroots resistance efforts by Lithuanians, who feel their own nation's fate is intimately tied to Ukraine's, writes Inga Rudzinskaite-Colman in Vilnius for @newlinesmag@mastodon.world
#ukraine #UkraineWar #russia
https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/what-ukraine-means-for-lithuanians-haunted-by-soviet-past/
NEW: Drug traffickers are increasingly using the South Pacific as a gateway to lucrative markets in Australia and New Zealand, with a growing human cost. Ava Benny-Morrison reports for New Lines magazine.
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-south-pacific-has-a-drug-problem/
NEW: Solarpunk imagines a future where humans solve the climate challenges facing our planet. The genre is both pragmatic and utopian, @ayoub@kolektiva.social writes for New Lines.
https://newlinesmag.com/argument/what-if-we-cancel-the-apocalypse/
#solarpunk #climatechange
NEW: “Football was my way into the world of my father, a world I understood far more than politics."
Kareem Shaheen writes about the meaning of football in the Middle East in this New Lines' newsletter, Spotlight.
https://newlinesmag.com/newsletter/as-the-world-cup-begins-in-doha-i-remember-the-rivalries-of-egyptian-teams/
NEW: Around 100 captive Atlas lions with genetic connections to the Moroccan royal collection remain alive today. But now they face extinction, writes Farah Abdessamad.
https://newlinesmag.com/essays/atlas-lions-eyes-burn-brightly-but-their-future-may-be-dark/