A few days ago, Syrian lawyer Muhammad Sabra took to X/Twitter to commemorate ten years since his brother Mahmoud was detained by the regime of…

Many in Egypt are hopeful after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a loan amounting to approximately $9.2bn—a jump from the $3bn promised…

Polls in Israel rarely show large majorities in support of any programme or political movement, but a few weeks before the UAE took the unprecedented…

This year, International Women’s Day, which is celebrated on 8 March every year, comes at a particularly difficult time for women—especially the ones…

Several years ago, to mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, I posted a light-hearted comment on my Facebook page.“In honour of International…

On the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers had died in the…

In 2023, Japan lost its status as the third-strongest global economic power to Germany. With a significant drop in the yen’s exchange rate this…

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched in September 2013, spread its infrastructure development projects around the world. Investments in…

The return of George Galloway, the defiantly pro-Palestinian British MP, to Parliament after several years in the political wilderness underlines the…

After a leak of a series of sensitive documents, detailed insight into how the Chinese government uses the private sector as part of its politically…