Economic blockades have long been used as a tool of coercion, deliberately positioned between diplomacy and war. From the British naval blockade of…

When British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer helped his Labour Party win a landslide victory in 2024, he did so on the basis that he would restore a…

Saudi production company Telfaz11 has moved between comedy and social drama while seeking to engage the transformations of local society in a light…

Damascus has recovered its natural cadence. Within it, the old and the new live side by side, the steadfast and the changing, reassurance shaded by…

Since October 2023, Arab cinema has found itself at the heart of Germany’s intensifying debate over the war in Gaza. This is especially true of…

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As Lebanon begins negotiating with Israel, it has appointed Ambassador Simon Karam to head his country's delgation. A second round of talks in…

For the first time in more than a decade, fighting forces from rival factions in eastern and western Libya have been brought together, in a military…

For a commodity essential to everything from pharmaceuticals to agriculture and mining, sulfur rarely makes headlines. But the Iran war is showing…