Naem khao, a popular street food dish from Laos, is the latest Southeast Asian dish to have taken social media by storm. Seen millions of times in viral videos on TikTok and Instagram, this rice ...

I attended a condolence ceremony there in January for Abdullah al-Naem, a 24-year-old man who had been abducted and murdered days earlier. His uncle, an elderly poet and author named Abdelkarim al ...