I was at Walmart today, minding my own business and checking out the zucchini.
A woman walked up next to me with who I assume was her husband. She was wearing a hijab.
And then… absolutely nothing happened.
She went about her shopping. I went about mine. Her choice to wear a hijab had absolutely zero impact on my day, my freedom, or my ability to buy zucchini.
She didn’t tell me I needed to wear one.
She didn’t try to force one on me.
She didn’t hold me down and put one on my head.
I know. Crazy, right?
Almost like people can practice their own religion, wear what they choose, and live their lives without forcing everyone else to live the same way.
Wild concept.
These days, it feels very different to be Arab, or Iranian, or Muslim in New York. Over the past decade, a new generation of artists, chefs, comedians, designers, and others have built unprecedented cultural and political capital. Together, they’re what you might call a *scene.*
Where the diasporas once seemed siloed, the new Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) scene is increasingly united across identities — Iraqi, Yemeni, Egyptian, Sudanese, Mauritanian, Afghan — and bound together by shared values. It was born out of the pain of the genocide in Gaza, which has led many young people to search for community in the city and build it where it didn’t exist. They found it at protests and in bars and cafés, at comedy shows and clothing pop-ups and fundraisers that turned into all-day hangs. And they found it in the election of the city’s first Muslim mayor and in the Syrian American First Lady.
Our latest issue is an attempt to capture the people and places who are defining this era. Explore this special SWANA edition, including a dispatch from its thriving party circuit, a report on how the Middle Eastern restaurant scene has evolved, and more: https://t.co/xv7EQMsgle
أطلق الاتحاد السعودي للرياضة للجميع مبادرة «10 مليار خطوة»، الهادفة إلى تشجيع أفراد المجتمع على زيادة مستويات النشاط البدني وتحويل الحركة اليومية إلى عادة مستدامة، عبر تحقيق هدف وطني يتمثل في تسجيل 10 مليارات خطوة خلال الفترة من يوليو إلى ديسمبر 2026، في إطار دعم مستهدفات «رؤية السعودية 2030» وتعزيز جودة الحياة.
https://t.co/9BrsR7qcEJ
Leading rights groups determined that Israel committed war crimes when it killed journalist Amal Khalil and injured another journalist in Lebanon in April.
A Post investigation found that Israel denied rescuers access to Khalil when she was still alive. https://t.co/ePC5nxGhbp
أعلنت شركة Amplifai Health السعودية حصولها على استثمار من شركة ASICS Ventures اليابانية، في خطوة تعكس تنامي اهتمام المستثمرين العالميين بالشركات التقنية الناشئة في المملكة، وتؤكد اتساع حضور الابتكار السعودي على الساحة الدولية.
@AmplifaiHealth
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