It is not for nothing that a biography of Jaber Alwan is called The Music of Colours. This visual artist, born in Babylon in 1948, is among a rare…

“He just looked at me...and smiled.”This is how Lance Corporal Eddie DeFranco, who was on guard duty at the Multinational Forces Headquarters in…

From one of the most important stations of the Belt and Road Initiative, situated amidst the historical Silk Road remnants along the picturesque…

Picture this: You’re driving in the city you’ve known your whole life. A young man in a bright yellow jacket appears and starts telling you where and…

Climate change, the Ukrainian war, the military coup in Niger, and the rush to acquire lethal weapons in more than one regional hotspot are all…

The curse of a new Bonapartism is back in France, where a gap between the government and the governed is growing again.A new brand of imperial-style…

President Emmanuel Macron is facing his third bout with civil unrest and faces a potential second suburban uprising, following his confrontation with…

I was so disappointed recently by a Cezanne exhibition (at Tate Modern), that I wrote about the frames rather than the paintings. How, then, to…

The attacker at the Federal Bureau of Investigation office on 11 August 2022 was a former American soldier and was wearing a bullet-proof vest and…

The saga of Rayya and Sakina, Egypt's most notorious serial killers who murdered and robbed at least 17 women and buried them under their house (with…