A deeper look at the life of 'the first Arab Cinderella'

A new book about Egyptian silver-screen actress and singer Leila Mourad uncovers the competing forces that shaped not only her career but also how she was perceived by the public.

Fadi El-Abdallah

Making Syria Safe for Refugees

[caption id="attachment_55254073" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Syrian refugees boys push a wheelbarrow along a road in the Zaatari refugee camp, a seven-square-kilometre (2.8-square-mile) camp…

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Hezbollah’s Refugee Quandary

[caption id="attachment_55254014" align="aligncenter" width="900"] MAJDAL ANJAR, LEBANON - NOVEMBER 12: A displaced Syrian child is viewedin a makeshift camp for Syrian refugees only miles from the…

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Prisons and Radicalisation

by Yasmine El-Geressi Fears that Westminster terroristKhalid Masood - the 52-year-old Muslim convert who killedfive people and injured 50 in an attack on London's Westminster Bridge- was…

Yasmine El Geressi

Book Reviews: Managing the Migrant Crisis

by Elizabeth Collett The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First-Century Refugee Crisis. Patrick Kingsley. Liveright, 2017. 368pp. Cast Away: True Stories of Survival From Europe’s Refugee…

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