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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureIn search of a COVID-19 vaccine in Yemen
Conspiracy theories, misinformation and Houthi refusals to vaccinate people in areas under their control mean that...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: InterviewCan art change the world? An interview with Hanan Toukan
In her new book, Toukan investigates the relationship between Western funding and contemporary art in Beirut, Amman...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureEscape from Kabul: a government official’s story
An Afghan government official narrates the story of his escape from Kabul in the midst of the chaos surrounding the...
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionAre the fortunes of Turkey’s AKP on the wane?
Turkey’s AKP represents one side of a deeply divided nation, but there are signs of shifts in the country’s...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionDominic Raab didn’t anticipate Kabul falling. He should have bought some binoculars
The Afghanistan issue was on Dominic Raab’s desk for years. If he’d paid it more attention, he might have realised...
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionGood religion or bad religion? Secularism and the Afghan question
Empowering religious groups to become political actors does not constitute freedom of religion for all and violates...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureBefore Kabul, a Yemeni city was taken over by Al Qaeda. This is its story
Five years after its liberation, the city of Mukalla still suffers from the scars left by a year of darkness
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionWhy an IMF loan is not the solution to Lebanon’s economic crisis
With 82% of Lebanon’s population living in poverty, the country is in desperate need of political and economic reform
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Published in: Home: OpinionReflecting on 1,000 columns over 20 years: the predictions that came true
On an openDemocracy milestone for Paul Rogers, he gives an insight into the late 20th-century landscape that shaped...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: AnalysisAs the West cuts aid lifelines, Afghanistan’s real crisis looms
The world must take action now to prevent a deep and lasting humanitarian crisis. But what, if anything, can be done?
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureThe Afghan woman activist still determined to educate girls
With the future of women’s rights and girls’ education in doubt under Afghanistan’s new Taliban regime, Zarlasht...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: NewsHow the West is failing Afghan women under threat
The evacuation effort has been patchy at best – but it’s not too late to step up assistance
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionAuthoritarian, corrupt, and more of the same. Lebanon has a new government
The challenge facing the country's new ministers is formidable – but at first look, it seems unlikely that they’ll...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionDespite all the international attention, Afghan refugees are not welcome
Nobody really knows what prospects await Afghan refugees when countries have yet to see human rights as rights for all humans
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe counterinsurgency myth
US failure in Afghanistan was not the result of a plan poorly executed. Rather, it reveals the violent logic at the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsLiverpool rises in opposition to arms fair as legal challenge is mounted
Pressure mounts on council to cancel international electronic warfare conference that was blocked from Spanish city last year
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureThe deadly legacy of 20 years of US 'War on Terror' in Iraq
The occupation of Iraq drained the country’s resources and left a legacy of economic crisis, energy shortages,...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionYemenis are being starved, and not enough is being done to stop it
Throughout Yemen’s brutal war, parties to the conflict have deprived civilians of the food and water they need to...
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Published in: Live discussions20 years since 9/11: Is this the end of the ‘War on Terror’?
This year marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11. So what is the legacy of the global War on Terror, and what does the...
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Published in: Podcasts: InterviewA UK government advisor who's changed his mind about the Iraq War
Ed Owen, an advisor to the foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq invasion, on why he now feels differently about...