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I am at the “Official Weigh-In Ceremony” for the July 4th Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, an event that does not separate contestants by weight class. Some of these contests are either surprisingly small or surprisingly jacked.

Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury who dedicated much of his writings to the Palestinian cause and taught at universities around the world, making him one of Lebanon’s most prominent intellectuals, has died. He was 76. Bassem Mroue باسم مروه for The Associated Press apnews.com/article/elias-…

A tribute to a feature on cars quite appreciated by engineering nerds and not only: popup headlights [📹 DtRockstar1]

Inside the diplomatic scramble to avert a broader war in Lebanon that collapsed when Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah. nytimes.com/2024/10/06/wor…

Lots of journalists who covered the tragedies in Syria from the start inside and outside are realising that all the blood and tears they spent bringing those stories was not a pointless fart in the wind to be buried under the necessities of geopolitics and it's quite the thing

Milletimizin gönlünde farklı bir yere sahip olan, Türk müziğinin duayen ismi Barış Manço’yu vefatının 26’ncı yıl dönümünde rahmetle ve saygıyla yâd ediyorum.

"What is Ramadan – and other questions answered: A brief guide to the Islamic season of Ramadan for the curious, the bored, the uninformed & the ignorant." For my non-Muslim friends, I wrote this guide to Ramadan and fasting almost 15 years (!) ago. newstatesman.com/politics/2010/…

Turkey arrests the mayor of Istabul, Ekrem Imamoglu, one of the country's most promiment opposition politicians. He was expected to be selected this week as his party's candidate in the next presidential election. nytimes.com/2025/03/19/wor…

Congrats to all winners of the The Pulitzer Prizes--so much extraordinary (and sometimes perilous) work. I'm proud to be in the same business as today's winners. I'm especially thrilled that Declan Walsh won for coverage of Sudan, probably the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Bravo

BREAKING: jury awards massive $167 million in punitive damages against spyware company NSO Group. Precedent-setting win against the notorious #Pegasus spyware maker. Congratulations to WhatsApp on sticking this case through since 2019. Some thoughts 1/

White House correspondents protest lack of wire reporters on Air Force One apnews.com/article/white-…

The U.S. flag was hoisted Thursday outside of the long-shuttered ambassador’s residence in Damascus, in a sign of growing ties between Washington and the new Syrian government. apnews.com/article/syria-…

“His eldest son was killed by a government shell. He had another son, then another daughter, and his adult children bore him three grandchildren. The peach tree grew taller than him.” Ben Hubbard nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Stunning multimedia road trip through Syria from Ben Hubbard & David Guttenfelder takes you through one shattered place after another, stopping for scenes of bitterness & grace. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Leila Hashemi, a novelist in attendance, compared practicing Syria’s newfound freedoms to exercising when out of shape. “Your muscles are still tight from the lack of movement,” she said, flapping her elbows like wings — ⁦Ben Hubbard⁩ search.app/ASZDU2mshfae8i…

A Journey Across the New #Syria Ben Hubbard David Guttenfelder nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Two months after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, I drove across Syria with David Guttenfelder, hwaida saad and other colleagues to see how Syrians were living through the momentous changes in their country. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

.The New York Times' Ben Hubbard and David Guttenfelder tour the new Syria, south to north: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Make time for this stunning, rare piece of journalism this weekend. A Journey Across The New Syria by Ben Hubbard & David Guttenfelder nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The stunning perfect balance with which simit sellers move through Turkey carrying hundreds on their heads.