Karl Vick

Vick is an editor at large at TIME. He has also served as TIME’s Jerusalem bureau chief. He has reported from 60 countries and in 2001 was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for coverage of the spread of AIDS in Africa.

Recent Articles

How U.S. Strikes May Have Inadvertently Helped the Iranian Regime 

In Tehran, there is evidence the regime is gaining ground with a public it had largely lost.

By Karl Vick

Iranian Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi Calls for Ceasefire

The renowned rights advocate called on other Nobel Peace Prize winners to amplify the call for an end to the Israel-Iran war.

By Chad de Guzman and Karl Vick

A New Middle East Unfolds Before Our Eyes

Iran has spent most of this century as the region’s rising power.

By Karl Vick

Israel Gets the War It Wanted

Israel strikes Iran after neutralizing Hezbollah as Tehran’s response falters, exposing deep regional shifts and vulnerabilities.

By Karl Vick

Pakistan Jails Baloch Human Rights Activist

Mahrang Baloch, a prominent champion of human rights for Pakistan’s ethnic Baloch minority, was included in last year’s TIME100 Next list of the world’s emerging leaders.

By Karl Vick

Inside the Conviction of Iran’s Would-Be Assassins

A federal jury returned guilty verdicts against two Eastern European self-described gangsters hired by Iran to send a hit man to kill Masih Alinejad at her Brooklyn home.

By Karl Vick

Locals in Sudan Are Saving Lives

More than 600 pop-up community centers, known as Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs), are now in operation, a grassroots effort that has become a lifeline.

By Karl Vick

Watch: Narges Mohammadi and Margaret Atwood

The Nobel laureate discusses reading 'The Handmaid's Tale' in an Iranian prison.

By Karl Vick and video by Andrew D. Johnson

Philippe Lazzarini on UNWRA's Future

The U.N. official discusses the Israel-Hamas War, his agency's neutrality, and what could come next.

By Karl Vick

Deborah Lipstadt Talks to TIME

The Holocaust historian on the global rise in antisemitism, the competing traumas of Oct. 7 and Gaza, and being played by Rachel Weisz.

By Karl Vick

The Death of Yahya Sinwar

The architect of the worst terrorist attack in Israel’s history was killed after a year of apocalyptic war

By Karl Vick

The Third Assassination Plot

Two assassination attempts against Trump were surprises. Perhaps neither reveals as much as the plot telegraphed by Iran for years

By Karl Vick

Watch: Engineers at Ground Zero

In the wake of 9/11, engineers became "second responders," keeping New York City safe from behind the scenes. A new film tells their story.

By Karl Vick

The Polarization Myth

The growing evidence that—even heading into this year’s election—Americans are less divided than you may think.

By Karl Vick

The Essential Question in the Middle East

If the Middle East is a puzzle, it’s one that grew even harder to imagine ever clicking together as the evening of May 19 gave way to May 20. In the space of 24 hours,...

By Karl Vick

The List of Potential Suspects in the Death of Iran’s President Raisi

President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter crashed in the northwest of Iran on Sunday, May 19.

By Karl Vick

Counting the Days With Rachel Goldberg-Polin

For the families pressing relentlessly for the release of their loved ones taken hostage on Oct. 7, moving forward is a contradiction.

By Karl Vick

Why Gaza's Food Has Long Been at Risk

Gaza's food supplies were at risk of weaponization well before the current conflict.

By Karl Vick

The Nation Builders

The most consequential acts in Israel and Gaza may have been the least noticed, carried out by those whom leaders had failed. Here are their stories.

By Karl Vick/Tel Aviv , Yasmeen Serhan/London and Photographs by Moises Saman—Magnum Photos for TIME

From Gaza, Stories of Loss and Grief

Hear from nine Palestinians who have lost family, friends, homes, and neighborhoods amid Israel’s ongoing airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.

By Yasmeen Serhan , Astha Rajvanshi , Anna Gordon and Karl Vick
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