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The War Outside the War
How the Iran ceasefire was shaped by U.S. domestic politics, Gulf pressure, and Tehran’s terms of survival.
Jun 16
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Fatima Abo Alasrar
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Houthi Lane: Why the Iran-backed Houthis Resumed Their Attacks on Israel
A declared Houthi ban on Israeli navigation in the Red Sea, two missiles that did not land, and the reason for the timing. May 28 to June 9, 2026.
Jun 12
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Fatima Abo Alasrar
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Olivier Le Cadre
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Chronology of Bad Listening (I): Satrapi's Radioactive Flashbacks
Beyond Persepolis: Marjane Satrapi and the Cost of Bearing Witness
Jun 5
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Olivier Le Cadre
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Iran's Most Potent Weapon Against Trump: Lego
A lesson in plastic propaganda.
Published on The Next Move
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Jun 1
May 2026
The Immunity Against Understanding Yemen
Reflecting on the passing of Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, the former President of Yemen, a man both constrained beyond his power and limited within it.
May 30
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Fatima Abo Alasrar
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Houthi Lane: An Ideological Hardening around Hajj.
Ideological Consolidation in the Spaces Between the Negotiations: The Religious Lectures, the Hajj Argument, and the Long Game on Saudi Arabia. May…
May 28
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Fatima Abo Alasrar
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Olivier Le Cadre
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Houthi Lane: Al-Houthi Returns to Screen
Al-Houthi breaks 28 days of silence.The Houthi pressure campaign on Saudi peaks then cools. A Houthi fighter captured in Ukraine speaks; Houthi media…
May 21
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Fatima Abo Alasrar
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Olivier Le Cadre
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Don Quixote de Sana'a: Inside the Houthi Distraction Machine
Tracking the massive gap between the Houthis' grand global narratives and their messy domestic reality.
May 16
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Olivier Le Cadre
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Fatima Abo Alasrar
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Houthi Lane: One Year After the Ceasefire
Houthis inside a hardened Axis of Resistance posture in the Red Sea and Hormuz. Saudi grievance campaign continues, Bahrain enters rotation, detailed…
May 15
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Fatima Abo Alasrar
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Olivier Le Cadre
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Axis Weekly: The Houthis Price the Saudi Track
The Tanuma campaign, the Fujairah strike, and the spy-network operation: April 29 – May 5, 2026
May 13
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Fatima Abo Alasrar
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Olivier Le Cadre
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Why Washington's Red Sea Truce With the Houthis Is Haunting Hormuz
One year after the Trump-Houthi ceasefire in the Red Sea, the same pattern is playing out at the Strait of Hormuz.
May 6
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Fatima Abo Alasrar
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Bad Guys, Good Cartoons: The Cultural Logic of Iran's Proxy Model
How the Axis of Resistance absorbs cultural talent without suppressing it, and what a Houthi cartoonist's trajectory from dissident to regime artist…
May 4
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Fatima Abo Alasrar
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