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The Latest Articles by Arwa Mahdawi

I tried to solve a murder – and almost had a nervous breakdown

My true crime obsession led me to spend countless hours and thousands of dollars investigating a missing persons case. I didn’t crack it. But I nearly cracked under the pressure, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

A male birth control gel is one step closer to reality, and that’s worth celebrating

A male equivalent to the female birth control pill has not yet materialized, but a clinical trial shows encouraging results

The Guardian - US

Maya Hawke is honest about her privilege. Why are other nepo babies so defensive?

The actor has been frank about her luck and comfort. But many celebrity children refuse to acknowledge the influence of their rich and well-connected parents, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

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Elon Musk is cosying up to Donald Trump. Haven’t we suffered enough?

While their huge egos have rubbed each other the wrong way in the past, they may have found common ground, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

Jerry Seinfeld’s lurch to the right now includes mourning ‘dominant masculinity’

The comedian’s remarks on a podcast join his cheerleading of genocidal violence and jokes about suffering children in Gaza

The Guardian - US

Where is Joe Biden’s fury about decapitated Palestinian babies?

Politicians parroted untrue rumors that Hamas had beheaded Israeli babies. When the children are Palestinian, they shrug

The Guardian - US

Should we follow Lily Allen – and let our partner control our smartphone?

Allen’s husband decides the apps she is allowed to use and she decides his. It’s one of many approaches people are taking to try to ditch social media and unbreak their brains, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

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Lady Gaga performed on stage with Covid. Did we learn nothing from the pandemic?

The revelation that the popstar was ill during five shows has led to many celebrating her work ethic. It’s yet more evidence that our dangerous, damaging hustle culture is here to stay, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

Louisiana descends into dystopia with historic law on abortion pills

The state wasn’t the best place to get pregnant in the first place, with some of the highest maternal mortality rates in the US

The Guardian - US

‘Stress and failure’: Matthew Barney on his film about the sports accident that traumatised America

The superstar of the avant garde has revisited a notorious football tackle that left one player paralysed. He talks about violence, ageing and how the US empire is in decline

The Guardian - UK

Why is New York University making protesters watch The Simpsons as punishment?

In what a professor calls an ‘intellectual embarrassment’, the school is requiring students to complete a bizarre training

The Guardian - US

Ivanka Trump looks like the comeback kid – and we should all be afraid

The closer Ivanka Trump is to her father, the closer Donald Trump is to the White House. And lately, the former first daughter seems to be testing the political waters, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

Sex-positive feminism had its moment – and now it has been replaced by voluntary celibacy

From the ‘boysober’ trend in the US to the 4B movement in South Korea, more and more heterosexual women are giving up sex, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

Harrison Butker’s misogynistic graduation speech shows the bigots are winning

We’re going backwards: a football player can say hateful things from a university podium while students are being arrested

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What’s up with ChatGPT’s new sexy persona?

OpenAI’s updated chatbot GPT-4o is weirdly flirtatious, coquettish and sounds like Scarlett Johansson in Her. Why?

The Guardian - UK

Can you be both straight and queer? You can if you’re Dannii Minogue

You assumed the entertainer was talking about her sexuality when she said she was ‘queer’? What an old-fashioned way of thinking, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

My Palestinian keffiyeh is a symbol of my identity. I should not be afraid to wear it in public

I wear the traditional black and white scarf to celebrate my heritage. That’s enough to make you a target in the US today, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - US

The abdication of two beauty queens hints at ugly truth about Miss USA

Miss USA and Miss Teen USA were cryptic about resigning, but there’s no mistaking the misogyny at the heart of the brand

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I hoped Peppa might be a role model for my daughter. But that little piggy is just a brat

My very American toddler can pick up a lot of things from the cartoon porker – but not an English accent. I wish I’d known that 12,000 episodes ago, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

Could you get by on a measly $43,000 a month? It seems Rudy Giuliani can’t

Trump’s disgraced former attorney somehow frittered away almost $120,000 in January. As a cash-strapped millennial, Arwa Mahdawi is delighted to share some money-saving tips

The Guardian - US

The adultification of children has consequences from Palestine to the US

Hind Rajab was six years old when she was killed in Gaza. So why did a CNN host refer to her as ‘a woman’?

The Guardian - UK

It’s not stranger danger you should be afraid of, it’s video doorbell derangement syndrome

Symptoms include paranoia, anxiety and a compulsion to snoop on your neighbours. I’m not judging – I’ve had a brush with it myself, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

It’s Mark Zuckerberg as we’ve never seen him! But what’s really behind the new look?

With his interchangeable T-shirts and short neat hair, Facebook’s founder famously ‘never tried to be cool’. Is his makeover just a distraction from what’s going on at Meta, asks Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - US

Why hasn’t the US called for an investigation into mass graves in Gaza?

Nothing screams ‘covering up war crimes’ like insisting that there should absolutely not be an independent investigation

The Guardian - US

Discussing Sonia Sotomayor’s retirement is not sexist – it’s strategic

The liberal justice has been called the supreme court’s conscience but we can’t afford a repeat of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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