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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionSyrian refugees in Scandinavia fear they will be forcibly returned to SyriaDenmark has decided that parts of Syria are now safe and revoked residency permits for Syrian refugees. Will other...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionSelahattin Demirtaş: the trial of the man who wanted to be Turkey’s presidentAfter more than four years of being held in a pre-trial detention that the ECHR ruled ‘unlawful’, Demirtaş is due to...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionGeorge W Bush’s finest piece of warPainting immigrants’ faces and laughing on chat shows will not excuse the former US president’s blood-stained past
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: Opinion‘My father’s life is in danger for defending Bahrain’s freedom’Human rights advocate Ali Mushaima calls on the British government to stop using taxpayers’ money to fund a...
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Published in: Home: AnalysisIn pursuit of truth: journalists fight back in battle for press freedomSeven global stories of the rising attacks on reporters and how they joined campaigners to take on hostile...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureHow Yemen’s teachers are being forced into extreme povertyWith salaries cut by up to half, many teachers take on extra jobs outside their teaching hours, in efforts to make ends meet
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: ReviewHow Egyptian TV series ‘The Choice’ is stirring controversy about the Rab’a massacreThe show appears to adopt the regime’s narrative as fact, despite it being disputed by human rights organisations
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Published in: 50.50: Opinion‘Living in constant fear’: Life as a journalist in SyriaWhen Zaina became a journalist, her family said she was committing a ‘sin’. Fifteen years on, she opens up about the...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionCOVID-19 is spreading among Bahrain’s prisoners of conscienceAs the main supporter of Bahrain’s repressive regime, the UK should join the protests against human rights abuses in...
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionCan worsening economies and increasing repression herald a new Arab Spring?North Africa today is reminiscent of the period leading up to the 2011 uprisings. Tensions are further aggravated by...
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Published in: Home: OpinionUS retreat from Afghanistan escalates neighbours’ scramble to fill the gapThis next stage of the endless war will only lead to more suffering as new players jockey for position while the...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionBanning the pro-Kurdish HDP in Turkey is a move towards fascismThe government’s attempt to ban Turkey’s third-largest political party is the latest attack against voices of change...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: InterviewChallenging traditional 'masculinity' in a Palestinian refugee camp in LebanonGustavo Barbosa, author of ‘The Best of Hard Times’, discusses the Shabab, the offspring of the Fedayeen – and how...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureCan social media help in the fight against sexual harassment in Egypt?Egyptian women experience sexual harassment every day, but feminist initiatives on social media are helping to...
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionLooking through a single lens can distort how we view the Arab SpringInequality shapes citizens’ views over whether their country has improved and so a deeper dive is needed to...
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Published in: Home: OpinionAs the rich get richer and the Global South gets poorer, expect more conflictRising inequality provides ripe pickings for militant Islamist groups plotting insurgencies – and ensures the ‘war...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionWhat's wrong with Jordanian media?Lack of home coverage of the royal family’s biggest public rift in decades reveals the dire state of access to...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionHappy is the one who says ‘I am a Turk’: the story of an oathIn Turkey, a row over the traditional classroom pledge of allegiance reveals the extent to which nationalism has...
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Published in: openIndia: FeatureHow migrants in the Gulf are fighting discrimination during the pandemicIndian labourers have been denied pay, food and accommodation. Now, some are demanding their rights
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: AnalysisThe EU and UK are releasing the money of deposed dictatorsWhy is the EU lifting sanctions on politicians accused of corruption in Egypt, Tunisia and Ukraine, when so little...
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