Activities to ‘cure’ LGBTIQ people are widespread globally, says report, driven by ultra-religious groups and...

Over 100 organisations and academics sign a letter demanding a fair selection process for the next IMF managing director.

Are Boris and Donald the new Blair and Bush? Movements of the UK’s handful of destroyers suggest they might be.

The Istanbul municipal elections might be the beginning of the post-Erdoğan period. But is it the end of authoritarianism?

Nothing other than direct talks can offer a prospect for a solution to the crisis.

On the radical transformations affecting Arab culture in the digital age.

To understand Turkey’s actions in the Middle East, we need to grasp its precarious place in world capitalism.

Few in the west know about the war fought on their behalf in Syria and Iraq. But they may come to know the rage that...

Did Beji Caid Essebsi succeed in his attempt to bring back Bourguibism to Tunisia?

It is quite wrong to see authoritarianism as harking back to the past. Its threat is built into the times we live in.

While the whole of Europe was speaking about the castaways we had on board, we were the only ones hearing their stories.

Sharing learning – and supportive international funding – has been the key to making a difference at the grass roots...

In the 1980s Iran learned its frigates were no match for the US Navy. But its many small, nimble attack craft can...

The remains of eyes and ears evoke a strong metaphor in a city haunted by constant state surveillance.

The Sustainable Development Goals are sending out distress signals. They won’t eradicate global poverty whilst...

They ousted one of the world’s worst dictators. Then came brutal counter-attacks from rich, militarised Islamic...

The true impact of war – particularly on people injured by explosive weapons – is being obscured by increasingly...

The Addis Standard uncovers the bilateral effort to cover-up Ethiopian deaths in Lebanon.

The needed solidarity with Mashrou’ Leila has unintentionally overshadowed the thousands of Palestinian voices...

How the US prevented the overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria by dissociating itself from it.