Former Charlie Hebdo journalist Zineb El Rhazoui collects fatwas like badges of honour. Her recent book outlines similarities between the Islamic and European far right.
These 50.50 authors will delight and challenge us with monthly comment and analysis about sexuality in Africa, and reportage on intersecting forms of oppression in Italy.
Amid the tense political environment in Morocco, now is the time for the Palace to assume its responsibility towards the people.
It is stunning how social movements were able to mobilize the masses to protest against democratic backslidings, often combined with demands for better governance.
A conversation about journalism and research in times of uprising and repression on the fourth anniversary of Egypt's Rabaa massacre.
Kenya’s violence cannot be regarded as isolated events unconnected to how society negotiates the terms on which it will live together by accounting for gender, class and regional dynamics.
Are we standing on the brink of a new kind of nihilistic governmentality, where politics is turned into perpetual theatre, disconnected from any kind of coherent government programming?
With a median age of 15 years, Ugandans are likely to continue to be ruled by a man who could easily be their great grandfather.
The view that social struggle should be repressed is hindering the opposition. Unless the view of the state and its coercive apparatus changes, the chances of wide scale social transformation are limited.
Stigma and growing religious fundamentalism are preventing women from fully accessing a range of reproductive health services.
If the Qatari crisis is not managed rationally, then it is likely to compound the present risks in the regional balance of power, with consequences for all states in the region.
The people of Egypt need to accept that they have to forge their own path to democracy, which at this point in history will most likely come at a bloody price.
