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Indian culture may be ancient, but its unity is rare and recent. A growing hostility to Muslims threatens to upend the world’s largest democracy.

Grappling with economic and political turmoil, Lebanon’s government is underequipped for a public health emergency.

The country’s protest movement knows what it’s against—but it never figured out how to achieve what it’s for.

As secular Indians protest a controversial new citizenship law, some debate whether they should demonstrate as Muslims first or as Indians who happen to be Muslim.

Carlos Ghosn’s mysterious return to Beirut is met with mixed reactions from a country in protest and peril.

Even among reformers, the fallen general was seen as a hero who stayed out of domestic politics.

The region is accustomed to cycles of protest and political upheaval, so it’s better not to bank on successful revolutions.

The people want more democracy, even if their leaders want less.

Even as right-wing forces took hold in many places around the world, grassroots democracy proved itself alive and well.

Activists’ voices have to be heard first on protest tactics.