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Yasmine El Geressi

Climate Change, Water Woes, and Conflict Concerns in the Middle East: A Toxic Mix

Hotter heatwaves, higher sea levels and more severe droughts: This is the sweltering reality in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) where climate…

13 July 2020

Women in Tech are a Force to be Reckoned with in the UAE 

Women in Middle East and North Africa face many challenges: According to the World Bank, 13 of the 15 countries with the lowest rate of female…

13 July 2020

America’s Voice in the Middle East Hangs in the Balance

On June 15, President Trump’s pick to head a global network of news agencies funded and operated by the US government started work following a…

28 June 2020

How the Pandemic is Exacerbated by America’s Health Insurance Problem

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to sweep across the United States, with more than 2.3 million confirmed cases and over 120,000 deaths…

07 July 2020

'I am Burning’: The Deadly Treatment of Afghan Refugees in Iran

“Bring Some Water; I’m Burning!” became a rallying cry for justice after a minute-long video, which went viral on social media, shows a harrowing…

03 July 2020

Surviving the Economic Shockwaves: The Impact of COVID-19 and Oil Prices on the Gulf

The coronavirus pandemic is having a dramatic impact on economies across the globe, but Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries — Bahrain,…

21 July 2020

‘The Government Strategy is a Shambles:’ UK Doctor Speaks Out on the Coronavirus 

Even before the coronavirus hit Britain, exhaustion, anxiety, and stress were already endemic in the country's overstretched National Health…

02 June 2020

Coping with Coronavirus: Experts Share Insights on Mental-Health in the Age of the Pandemic

The rise of the novel coronavirus outbreak has upended life across the globe. With billions of people adjusting to the limitations of life in the age…

14 August 2020

Blamed, Attacked, Denied Treatment: Coronavirus Fans Islamophobia in India 

A hospital in India demanded Muslim patients and their attendants prove they didn’t have Covid-19 before being admitted for treatment. The privately…

15 May 2020

The US and China’s Dangerous Race for a Vaccine

A dramatic deterioration in US-China relations in recent weeks has further destabilised a critical relationship between Washington and Beijing that…

08 May 2020
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Barbara Gibson
Politics

China’s Victory Day Parade: symbolic or seismic?

05 September 2025

Beijing would like the week to mark a historic turning point in which a unipolar world finally gave way to multipolarity. To others, it was just tub-thumping bravura. In reality, it was a bit of both.

Shirley Ze Yu
Business & Economy

Syria’s post-Assad energy quandary

01 September 2025

The country now sits at an energy crossroads: will its recovery be anchored in oil and gas, or will it seize the chance to lean into renewables and build something more resilient?

Jesse Marks
Pep Boatella
Politics

Disarming Hezbollah: will Lebanon seize or squander its opportunity?

02 September 2025

After Israel dealt Iran and its regional axis a string of crippling blows last year, Lebanon now finds itself better-positioned to reclaim its eroded state sovereignty. Will it grab the chance?

Frederic C. Hof
Al-Ma'arri in his residence as depicted in a 1965 book Wikipedia Commons
Culture & Social Affairs

Al-Ma’arri’s satirical poetry reimagined for today's readers

02 September 2025

Recent books from Yemen, Egypt, and Syria take a new look at the 10th-century philosopher's famed letter 'The Epistle of Forgiveness', which is said to have inspired Dante's 'Divine Comedy'

Ali Almuqri
Local residents walk past a house destroyed by an earthquake that killed nearly 1,000 people and devastated villages in eastern Afghanistan, on September 1, 2025. AFP
Politics

For Afghan quake victims, sympathy came faster than help

04 September 2025

An earthquake in Afghanistan earlier this week levelled entire villages and left people trapped under rubble for days, but in the shadow of the Hindu Kush, saviours were thin on the ground

Kaswar Klasra

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