Deeparaghavan27·Jul 7The Sky Belongs to Whoever Can Afford to Seed It: Inside the Gulf’s Weather Modification GambleThe Region That Wasn’t Consulted
Deeparaghavan27·Jun 22Lebanon’s Oligarchs and the Bank HeistSix years after the deposit freeze, no one has been convicted — a forensic look at whyA response icon1A response icon1
Deeparaghavan27·Jun 9IRAN’S ECONOMY UNDER GENZ’S SHADOWREFORMISTS WITHOUT REFORMSA response icon1A response icon1
Deeparaghavan27·Jun 5The Quiet Disruption: How Fintech Is Banking Africa’s Unbanked – And What It Is Not Telling YouThe headline statistics are alluring. The fintech sector in Africa has doubled from 450 companies in 2022 to over 1000 by the year 2024…
Deeparaghavan27·May 27Jordan’s Gen Z Rewrites What Arab Pride MeansThey grew up watching their governments fail them, their culture get flattened by algorithms, and their people die on livestreams. Now they…A response icon2A response icon2
Deeparaghavan27·May 23The Plain That Swallows ItselfPakistan’s Indus Plain is no longer flooding seasonally. It is flooding permanently, and the cause is not only a changing climate. It is…
Deeparaghavan27·May 21Saudi Vision 2030 – But For Whom, Exactly?A trillion-dollar plan to remake a kingdom. Workers are dying for it. Tribes are being killed to clear land for it. Activists are…
Deeparaghavan27·May 19ETHIOPIA’S DEBT TRAPWhere Does the Chinese Money Go?A response icon1A response icon1
Deeparaghavan27·May 18The Homeland You Can’t Go Back To: South Asia’s Queer Diaspora and the Weight of BelongingOn longing for a place that does not want you back — and what you build in the space between.
Deeparaghavan27·May 14Drone War as a Service: The Middle East BazaarHow unmanned weapons became the region’s most traded commodity — and why no one is being held accountable