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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionLooking back, looking forward: inheriting the revolutions of the ‘Arab Spring’To mark the tenth anniversary of the ‘Arab Spring’, the Transnational Institute has produced a dossier documenting...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionWill climate change stop Arabia from being Saudi?The power of the House of Saud is a direct product of the West’s obsession with oil – can it survive a global shift...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureKunduz to Kandahar: two explosions, one wounded communityIn Afghanistan, attacks on Shia worshippers escalate, bringing further trauma to a fractured society
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: NewsUK tells trapped Afghan interpreters to escape on their ownMinistry of Defence criticised for ‘morally indefensible’ suggestion that former embassy workers should make...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionTunisia’s president has given himself unprecedented powers. How will he use them?Kais Saied has stressed his loyalty to ‘the suffering people’ – in his upcoming state budget we’ll find out if he meant it
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Published in: Home: AnalysisThe Global North caused the climate crisis. Now is the time to pay its duesExtreme weather changes are causing havoc in African states such as Zambia but they can’t afford a Green New Deal...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: AnalysisDeadly clashes in Beirut show Lebanon is a country of no accountabilityAt least six killed and dozens injured in outbreak of heavy gunfire that will also create further obstacles to port...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionDid democracy in Tunisia fail or did it never succeed?The appointment of the Arab world’s first woman prime minister in Tunisia cannot hide the country’s dismal economic...
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Published in: 50.50: ExplainerHow journalists around the world are taking action to help Afghan colleaguesFrom Italy to India, media workers have launched new initiatives to support colleagues from Afghanistan since the...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureSeven years in camps: Life for the abandoned victims of ISMany thousands of displaced Yazidi survivors are still living in unbearable conditions in Iraq, with no foreseeable way out
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWe must realise the threat posed by Saudi Arabia’s Newcastle ‘sportswashing’Sportswashing launders the reputations of thugs and despots, but it also diminishes our democratic institutions
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionEducating the host: It's not just refugees who need ‘integration’ programmesTeaching local hosts the experience of war and forced displacement would help to publicly challenge hate speech and...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureIn search of a COVID-19 vaccine in YemenConspiracy 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 ToukanIn 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 storyAn 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 binocularsThe 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: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureBefore Kabul, a Yemeni city was taken over by Al Qaeda. This is its storyFive 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: Global Extremes: OpinionGood religion or bad religion? Secularism and the Afghan questionEmpowering 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: OpinionWhy an IMF loan is not the solution to Lebanon’s economic crisisWith 82% of Lebanon’s population living in poverty, the country is in desperate need of political and economic reform
