The past decade has seen theproliferationof largely extremist and sectarian 24-hourreligious television channelsthroughout the Middle East and…
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The latest general election was one of the most highly contested in Israeli history. As of the writing of this article, both Benjamin Netanyahu’s…
The Trump administration is beginning to prepare its allies for a spring release of its long-awaited “ultimate deal” for Middle East peace…
Omar al-Bashir was born on 1 January 1944 into a peasant family in Hosh Bannaga, north of the capital, Khartoum Sudan, which until…
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Walid Abu Rashed, wearing a yellow wig, and a fellow actor entertain children through a makeshift puppet theatre set up among the rubble of collapsed buildings in the town of Saraqib in the rebel-held northern Idlib province. (Getty)
A Syrian fighter of the Turkish-backed Hamza Division aims a Kalashnikov assault rifle from a position in the village of Ulashli near the frontline in the northeast of Aleppo province. (Getty)
Kyrgyz dancers perform in an event gathering bedouins and nomads from around the world as part of the annual King Abdulaziz Camel Festival in Rumah desert, northeast of the Saudi capital Riyadh. (Getty)
Children carry empty tanks to get water in Beira, Mozambique, March 21, 2019, ahead of World Water Day. (Getty)
Two young Chinese women dressed in Han Chinese clothing take photographs of the cherry blossoms with their smartphones in the Yuyuantan Park in Beijing. Hanfu is a name for pre-17th century traditional clothing of the Han Chinese, which are the predominant ethnic group of China. (Getty)
A flock of geese is tended to at a farm in Ipekyolu district of Turkey's eastern Van province. (Getty)
On March 19th, Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, resigned after having spent almost 30 years as the country’s leader. Under the Soviet…
1 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika was born on March 2, 1937. Some biographers say Bouteflika was born in Tlemcen, western Algeria, and…
Agnes Varda, the Belgian-born director who earned the title “grandmother of the French New Wave when she was barely 30 years old, died on March 19…
A FRENCH ARTIST IN THE INFERNO? In the days of Queen Victoria, a traveller by the name of Gustave Doré came to witness the greatest city on the…
It was long believed that politicians who utilized their cults of personality were authoritarian autocrats, such as Hugo Chavez of Venezuela or Mao…
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