New Lines Magazine

Because Rafael Nadal has been a beloved and respected icon of tennis for so many years now, part of the pantheon of the sport, it’s easy to forget that he wasn’t universally embraced at first. When he burst onto the scene in the mid-2000s, tennis traditionalists — especially fans of the Swiss champion Roger Federer, who was then at the apex of his powers — were aghast at the...

Sara, a 37-year-old single woman living in Tehran, was among the many Iranians who went to bed on April 7 this year in fear of Donald Trump’s threat to “eradicate” Iranian civilization, not knowing what horrors the next day would bring.

“Many people went to bed embracing one another with the anxiety that tomorrow might never come, saying their goodbyes. I was one o...

Omar Ahmed and Ismail Bihaya are still a little dazed.

In late March, the two hydrologists, both 32, were taking selfies against the dazzling gold of Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock. The trip, the first of their lives, had long felt out of reach.

Their country, Somaliland, does not exist in the eyes of the world.

“Our passport isn’t recognized anyw...

For more than 13 years, the children of Rania al-Abbasi lived in the space between memory and death.

Their faces remained fixed in the photographs that had traveled across human rights campaigns and family appeals, six children suspended at the ages they were when Bashar al-Assad's intelligence officers came for them in March 2013. Dima was 14, Entisar 13, Najah 11...

Built on steel and state planning, the Vaal Triangle once symbolized South Africa’s economic future. Today, its residents are living through the long aftermath of deindustrialization.

Cold November rain turns Toto Street in Sebokeng township into mud. The road, like most here, is unpaved. Diluted sewage seeps between the small houses behind brick walls and sagging ...