The Compass

Letter from Kuwait

  • March 10, 2026
  • ICWA

No one here wanted this.

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The gap in US foreign policy

  • March 10, 2026
  • Suren Avanesyan

Should Washington restore the role of international assistance?

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When nuclear apocalypse angst was a thing

  • March 6, 2026
  • Jean-Louis Doublet

Seven decades ago, a Hollywood movie helped raise the kind of concern very few feel today.

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Could emigres drive Africa’s economic future?

  • February 26, 2026
  • Joel Millman

Brain drain is siphoning tens of thousands of professionals a year but some have become the continent’s leading investors.

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Two poems

  • February 20, 2026
  • Susan Brind Morrow

“February Sail” and “[Dozens of snails]”

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Who your daddy isn’t

  • February 17, 2026
  • Bryn Barnard

Reshaping national identity in Kuwait

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Ethiopia’s Omo Valley

  • February 13, 2026
  • Douglas Lyon

Looking back at visiting the Surma people for a television shoot

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The loud silence of Syria’s Christians

  • February 10, 2026
  • Rami Al Amine

They will have to choose to be subjects or citizens. Their choice may shape Syria’s future.

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Review: An Unforeseen Revolution

  • February 6, 2026
  • Paul A. Rahe

Scott Anderson gives an engaging but myopic account of the 1979 Iranian revolution.

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Susanna and the Americans

  • February 4, 2026
  • Robert Coalson

A painting evokes a new complicity.

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