Student protests test France's Republican promise

Education reform is at the heart of the demonstrations shaking Paris and beyond, with thousands already arrested, but the government's ability to meet learners' demands is limited

Elie Kossaifi

Old Powers in a New Poll

[caption id="attachment_55249489" align="alignnone" width="620"] A giant Algerian flag hangs on the wall behind supporters of Algerian former premier and candidate for the presidential election Ali…

Nabila Ramdani

Little Latakia

[caption id="attachment_55249485" align="alignnone" width="620"] Syrian refugees in Antakya look towards home. (Hannah Lucinda Smith)[/caption]It is 11:30 pm on a Tuesday night, and Café Latakia is…

Hannah Lucinda Smith

Ministry of Apathy

[caption id="attachment_55249425" align="alignnone" width="620"] An armored vehicle is parked outside the Interior Ministry in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, on July 31, 2012. (GAMAL NOMAN/AFP…

Catherine Shakdam

Marrying Off Girls

[caption id="attachment_55249446" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iraqi schoolgirls return home in Baghdad on February 28, 2012. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] A proposed law in Iraq…

Mina Al-Droubi

A Turkish Double Act

[caption id="attachment_55249411" align="alignnone" width="620"] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (L) and then-Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül talk during a parliament session held…

Ali Hussein Bakeer

No Security for Egypt’s Women

[caption id="attachment_55249398" align="alignnone" width="620"] A protester holds a sign reading "Freedom and justice for women and men" during a demonstration in Cairo against sexual harassment in…

Elizabeth Monier

Rebels at the Porthole

[caption id="attachment_55249385" align="alignnone" width="620"] Company employees picket outside the Oasis Libyan Oil company headquarters after the company rejected the events at the Sidra oil…

Haley Cook and Jason Pack

Same Struggle, New Decade?

[caption id="attachment_55249381" align="alignnone" width="620"] Posters are prepared of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as Iranians stage a mass rally to mark the 35th anniversary of…

Christian Emery

The March of the Houthis

[caption id="attachment_55249377" align="alignnone" width="620"] Yemeni soldiers man checkpoint at a road leading a warring area between Shiite Houthi militias and armed tribal groups in north of…

Abubakr Al-Shamahi