Despatches from a trip to the 2015 Palestinian Festival of Literature. Part one: Allenby.
How did the struggle for Palestine gain such prominence on the left? The answer might tell us something about broader patterns of thought in left-wing politics today.
Public spaces in Cairo have evaporated in the last decade. Could this be why the social gap has evolved into alarming segregation accompanied with ignorance, ‘othering’ and disdain?
US diplomatic efforts to quell violence in Syria have been halfhearted and ineffective.
The ancient city of Palmyra is also home to Tadmor prison, and was lost to us long before IS.
Tunisia's startups are not the cure-all to the country's profound economic problems, but they're a step in the right direction.
Taking pictures in Palestinian refugee camps feels crude. But what is more clumsy is to go to the West Bank and ignore the occupation.
White men in suits support Arab autocrats while the suffering many are vilified as dangerous to the fabric of western societies: external threats or worse, immigrants attempting to infiltrate.
Three Sunni men from Mosul describe life under the so-called Islamic State.
It is time for Arab Gulf countries to stop being on the defensive and to accept their responsibility for what is happening in the region.
The writer reflects on the role of language, foreign and Arabic, colloquial and classical, in Morocco; and on the appropriation, polarisation, and xenophobia of the Egyptian counter-revolution.
A granddaughter discovers her grandfather's notebook years after the political massacres that stole her mother and aunt. Beginning as a testimony of loss, it becomes an obsession to leave a trace against silence and denial. From States of Impunity.
