Impunity from Syria to Ukraine

Even before the war in Ukraine, the global world order was imploding with stunning rapidity for people there as China strangled Hong Kong, Lebanon’s economy crashed and Afghanistan returned to Taliban rule. Reactions to her article came not only from the region but from around the globe, underscoring how much connects people everywhere, and how the Middle East’s own experience is relevant to others. Kim speaks to Lina Mounzer in Beirut, a writer and translator who captured the mood in Beirut in her essays for the NYT, Shawn Yuan, an award-winning journalist who covered the protests in Beirut and Hong Kong protests and told her he had hoped China’s future would look like Hong Kong; and Muska Dastageer, a professor at the American University of Kabul who had to flee Kabul when U.S. troops withdrew in the summer of 2021.