Shocking news to see one of the best American reporters on Iran laid off at this critical moment. She would be a huge asset to any newsroom.

The Washington Post has just inexplicably laid off the entire Middle East team, along with most of the international staff. My heart goes out to all my beloved former colleagues. Anyone who’s hiring, there’s some incredibly talented correspondents now looking for work

Jeff Bezos's wanton destruction of one of America's most fearless journalistic institutions so that he can suck up to Trump is too expensive a midlife crisis to impose on America. A sad day for independent media.

Oh my God. Oh my God. Louisa Loveluck I am stunned. You and colleagues across the Middle East left it all on the field. You risked your physical and mental health and delivered groundbreaking, moving stories that cannot be replaced. Love & respect.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

If you're canceling your subscription to a newspaper because it's been gutted and has layed off its international staff documenting the consequences of US policies abroad, here are two news organizations to back still investing in free press and public service journalism 👇🏽

The The New York Times has no debt, $1 billion on hand, and is approaching 15 million subscribers. The The Washington Post competes with them daily on stories, and often beats them. Jeff Bezos should sell to someone who knows how to compete in this field. He obviously doesn't.

Jeff Bezos's devastation of the writing staff of The Washington Post has been noted. But its photographers have also been fired, all of them. Photographers are incredible journalists, often taking greater risks than we writers do, and the WashPost has had many brilliant ones.

As his regime crumbled, Bashar al-Assad was obsessed with sex and video games, and he refused every lifeline he was offered. Palace insiders told robert worth that Assad could have saved his regime if he hadn’t been so stubborn and vain. theatlantic.com/international/…

My story on the fall of the Assad regime: theatlantic.com/international/…

Will Lewis’s exit is long overdue. His legacy will be the attempted destruction of a great American journalism institution. But it's not too late to save The Post. Jeff Bezos must immediately rescind these layoffs or sell the paper to someone willing to invest in its future.

Great to be on GPS with Fareed Zakaria talking about all things with Iran, with the excellent Wendy Sherman, former diplomat and nuclear negotiator.

How come this is not a headline story ?

Beirut friends--Please join us next week, February 19, at 7.30pm at West Hall on American University of Beirut campus for a special conversation with Ann Kerr, an extraordinary woman, author and lecturer, and widow of Malcolm Kerr, president of AUB assassinated in Beirut in 1984.

Democracy is not dying in darkness. It is dying in plain view.

The 2026 Nieman Fellows have chosen Gaza-based Palestinian journalists @shrouqaila & @npr’s Anas Baba with the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism for reporting that documents the human consequences of war with accuracy and care nieman.harvard.edu/the-2026-niema…

Sheikha Al Mayassa Al Thani Al Thani, Chairperson of #QatarMuseums, shared her experience on dealing with "male egos especially from the West" during the beginning of her journey. In an interview with CNN, which was aired on Friday, the Qatari royal offered a historic context on the

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

Aujourd’hui s’est éteinte Leïla Shahid, infatigable voix de la cause palestinienne, qui porta durant des décennies, avec courage et dignité, l’exigence de justice et le droit du peuple palestinien à vivre libre et en paix. Diplomate engagée, femme de conviction et de dialogue,

Today at American Enterprise Institute, we had an excellent conversation with Firas Maksad , Liam Karr , Ben Fishman , and Fred Kagan on how alliances in the Horn of Africa have shifted away from ideological camps, reflecting broader changes across the Middle East. The post–Arab uprisings