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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/obituaries/hanna-mina-dead.html?partner=rss&emc=rss" target="_blank"> Hanna Mina, Syrian Novelist Who Chronicled the Poor, Dies at 94</a><br />');
document.write('Mr. Mina wrote dozens of books that portrayed the oppressed in a career that spanned half a century, although only two have been translated into English.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/world/middleeast/dubai-immigration-residency-sponsorship.html?partner=rss&emc=rss" target="_blank"> Dubai Dispatch: Can a Woman Head a Household in Dubai? Our Reporter Ventures to Find Out</a><br />');
document.write('Under the immigration laws of the United Arab Emirates, husbands hold the reins of authority. This can make life anxiety-ridden for foreign women.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/obituaries/uri-avnery-dead.html?partner=rss&emc=rss" target="_blank"> Uri Avnery, Israeli Journalist and Peace Activist, Is Dead at 94</a><br />');
document.write('A left-wing thorn in the government’s side, he called for a Palestinian state and challenged the notion of a strictly Jewish nationality.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/world/middleeast/american-killed-helicopter-crash-iraq.html?partner=rss&emc=rss" target="_blank"> Pentagon Says an American Is Killed in a Helicopter Crash in Iraq</a><br />');
document.write('Several other troops were injured in the crash that followed a joint counterterrorism operation in Iraq.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/world/middleeast/israel-weddings-orthodox-alternatives.html?partner=rss&emc=rss" target="_blank"> Israel’s Latest Culture War Plays Out Under the Wedding Canopy</a><br />');
document.write('Rejecting the strictly Orthodox monopoly over marriage and divorce, Israeli Jews increasingly opt for alternative weddings.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/world/middleeast/egypt-coptic-bishop-monk-murder.html?partner=rss&emc=rss" target="_blank"> Murder Mystery in Ancient Monastery Reverberates in Coptic Church</a><br />');
document.write('The death of Bishop Epiphanius, found in a pool of blood, has exposed simmering tensions in the cloistered world of Egypt’s ancient desert monasteries.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/17/arts/design/uffizi-islam-exhibition.html?partner=rss&emc=rss" target="_blank"> Amid an Anti-Muslim Mood, a Museum Appeals for Understanding</a><br />');
document.write('An exhibition at the Uffizi gallery in Florence shows how the city benefited from dialogue with the Muslim world.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/world/middleeast/turkish-airstrike-in-iraqi-territory-kills-a-kurdish-militant-leader.html?partner=rss&emc=rss" target="_blank"> Turkish Airstrike in Iraqi Territory Kills a Kurdish Militant Leader</a><br />');
document.write('The attack killed Zaki Shingali, a leader of a group that Turkey calls a terrorist organization, but he was considered a hero to the Yazidi minority in Iraq for his efforts to help them.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/science/oldest-cheese-ever-egypt-tomb.html?partner=rss&emc=rss" target="_blank"> Archaeologists Find 3,200-Year-Old Cheese in an Egyptian Tomb</a><br />');
document.write('The cheese was found in a tomb that had been thought lost to shifting sands until it was rediscovered in 2010.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/world/middleeast/sacramento-al-qaeda-isis-arrest.html?partner=rss&emc=rss" target="_blank"> ISIS Member Arrested in Sacramento, U.S. Says</a><br />');
document.write('Omar Ameen, 45, who is also a longtime member of Al Qaeda, lied to obtain refugee status in 2014, prosecutors say.');
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