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Join IBB Founder and President @faisalalmutar at @SetonHall for @HRF's Tyranny Tracker presentation. Faisal will deliver the keynote and take part in a panel on global authoritarianism.
📅 Oct. 19 · 2–4 p.m.
📍 South Orange, NJ
Full program in the second image.
We’re honored to be a Quality Education for All finalist at the 2026 .ORG Impact Awards!
Meet the people behind this recognition: our translators and teachers expanding access to knowledge across the Middle East and Afghanistan.
Thank you, @PIRegistry!
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There Was Nothing Victorious About October 7, by John Aziz, in Middle East Uncovered, an irreplaceable source of news and commentary, sponsored by Ideas Beyond Borders @IdeasB2 open.substack.com/pub/middle…
Pezeshkian held up photos of Iranian children killed in foreign attacks and spoke of “our innocent people.”
What about the Iranians killed by his own government? Their families are still waiting for justice.
Read Husain Maschinetchian on the Iranian victims missing from Pezeshkian’s UN speech in @MEastUncovered, a publication of Ideas Beyond Borders.
themiddleeastuncovered.com/p…
Maoz Inon’s parents were killed by Hamas on October 7. Aziz Abu Sarah lost his brother after he was detained by Israeli soldiers.
They are now working together for peace. @Iram_Ramzan spoke with them about grief, anger, and the work they believe cannot wait.
themiddleeastuncovered.com/p…
Rojin trained for a year and a half to become a freelance programmer. Then Iran’s internet shutdown cut her off just as she was ready to begin.
For millions of Iranians, getting online is how they find customers and earn a living. @Soranmansournia reports on what happens when the state takes that away.
themiddleeastuncovered.com/p…
Peace is tied to practical things: whether people can learn, find reliable information, build a livelihood, and shape their own future.
For the International Day of Peace, we’re looking at the people doing that work across the Middle East and Afghanistan.
ideasbeyondborders.org/the-w…
More than 46,000 people went to Abu Dhabi's Comic Con last year. This year's event sold out before it even opened.
A generation ago, some of the people now at the center of that scene were the “weird” kids for liking anime and gaming.
How that happened is a much bigger story than cosplay. 👇
themiddleeastuncovered.com/p…
Tunisia grows ingredients used in beauty products around the world. So why shouldn’t more of those products be made in Tunisia too?
That’s part of what drove chemist Nesrine Abdellatif to build BiotyNess, a homegrown skincare company.
Her path there was anything but straightforward.
Our team at @MEastUncovered tells her story 👇
Twenty-five years after 9/11, IBB President @faisalalmutar reflects on growing up in Iraq through the wars that followed, and the lesson that helped shape our work today: fighting extremism is only part of the job. We also have to invest in the people building what comes next.
Twenty-five years after September 11, we owe the victims more than remembrance. We also owe ourselves an honest accounting of what followed, and what our responsibility is moving forward. Read @faisalalmutar's reflections 25 years after 9/11—and what he believes should come next: themiddleeastuncovered.com/p…
What does the Middle East look like when the people living the story get to tell it?
That’s what we’re building with @MEastUncovered: reporting and analysis from writers across the region who know these stories firsthand.
Follow @MEastUncovered to hear more of those voices.
This started with a Beirut gallery giving displaced artists somewhere to work. It grew into an exhibition bringing together 17 artists from across Lebanon.
At No Chef in the Kitchen in Saifi, displaced artists from the south, the Beqaa, and Beirut came together around one question: what brings us together when everything around us is pulling us apart? @rayanne_tawil reports from the exhibit:
If the world is getting better in important ways, would we even know it?
@FaisalAlMutar asked @sapinker about the state of the world when they sat down in New York this week.
His answer was a reminder that crises make headlines. Progress usually happens too slowly to become breaking news.
The camps holding ISIS families are closing. But what happens to the children who grew up in them?
Many still have no citizenship or legal identity. Some have spent most of their lives in limbo.
Hollie McKay reports for @MEastUncovered.
Read Hollie McKay’s latest for @MEastUncovered, “The Children ISIS Left Stateless Never Went Away. They Just Grew Up.” open.substack.com/pub/middle…
During the war in Lebanon, a Beirut gallery became an open studio for artists displaced from the south.
Then something unexpected happened. Artists from Beirut and the Beqaa began joining them.
Now, 17 artists are exhibiting together in the same space.
The story of “Under One Sky,” from @MEastUncovered > open.substack.com/pub/middle…
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What's at stake for Palestinians at Israel's elections? My latest for @MEastUncovered
themiddleeastuncovered.com/p…
“Now is not the time to discuss” reopening schools for girls above sixth grade, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Sunday.
It has been five years. Millions of Afghan girls are still barred from the classroom.
When will it be "time"?
See you tomorrow!
"Tomorrow night, IBB President Faisal Saeed Al Mutar is taking the stage with Steven Pinker in New York.
Faisal and Pinker will spend an hour on stage talking about Pinker’s latest book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows, his earlier work, free speech, social media, human progress, Enlightenment ideas, and whatever else Faisal decides to ask him." ideasbeyondborders.org/
