Summary: Whispering Walls is a timely and important debut novel from the British-Kurdish author Choman Hardi, a well-known feminist who has long fought for gender equality in Kurdish society.
Summary: Republicans in Washington have invoked an arcane device to withhold urgently needed humanitarian food aid to Palestinians.
Summary: the British academic Matthew Hedges has received an apology from the Foreign Office five years after he was unlawfully detained in the UAE, charged and convicted of being a UK government spy.
Summary: Mohammed bin Zayed has diligently, carefully and quietly built his small Gulf state into a regional powerhouse. Matthew Hedges analyses how he has done that.
Summary: amidst domestic political uncertainty and a lack of coherent policy formulation in the autumn of 2022 the UK found its presence in the Gulf and the wider Middle East in danger of slipping further into decline.
Summary: a Jewish human rights activist explains the strategic importance of a small West Bank village and calls for the international community to speak out in defence of Palestinians who are being targeted in settler pogroms encouraged by extreme right ministers in the Netanyahu government.
Summary: announced two years ago, The Line is Mohammed bin Salman’s most ambitious giga project and one that is proving a huge financial windfall for Western architects and urban planners.
Summary: this week marks 10 years since the coup that overthrew Mohamed Morsi but the events that led to the coup and the events that followed are entwined in Egypt’s story of revolution and counterrevolution captured in these images by Hossam el-Hamalawy.
Summary: this week marks 10 years since the coup that overthrew Mohamed Morsi but the events that led to the coup and the events that followed are entwined in Egypt’s story of revolution and counterrevolution captured in these images by Hossam el-Hamalawy.
Summary: Iraq’s water security is poor and – absent urgent action – is set to get much worse.
