The Weekly Wire
The week, every corpus, in brief.
The Wire is the Dossier's Friday sibling. Where the Dossier takes one story and reads it across every dimension, the Wire takes the week — the stories that moved the region's press in Persian, Kurdish, Arabic, Turkish, and English, each with a note on who carried it and who didn't. The silences get their own short section. Fridays. Free.
Pressure Points Across the Region.
This week, regional tensions converged on questions of sovereignty, airspace, and accountability. Iranian overtures to reopen the Strait of Hormuz met muted responses in Arabic-language outlets, while a dramatic midair incident involving an Israel-bound flight fractured coverage along linguistic lines. Turkish media focused intently on domestic political fallout, even as violence in Gaza and the West Bank drew divergent editorial attention. Silence, too, spoke volumes—on U.S. war powers, provincial violence in Turkey, and Iraq’s economic pivot.
- N° 006
Visas, Valves, and Votes.
25 September 2026 · 7 stories
- N° 005
Lines of fire, lines of silence.
18 September 2026 · 7 stories
- N° 004
Blockades, borders, and broken ferries.
4 September 2026 · 7 stories
- N° 003
Straits and silences.
7 August 2026 · 7 stories
- N° 002
Fires, fleets, and fragile accords.
31 July 2026 · 7 stories
- N° 001
Two straits, one war.
24 July 2026 · 7 stories