Europe

For decades the far right sat on the periphery of Western politics, dismissed as angry skinheads or deluded neo-Nazis by the centrist mainstream. No longer.

A big pro-EU bloc should still hold sway even if the ultra-nationalists make gains. More broadly, the results will act as a barometer of public mood in the first vote since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Twin fears of an inward-looking Donald Trump and a westward-looking Vladimir Putin have left officials in Europe's treasuries urgently revising their budgets to make room for more defence spending.

It is curious that amid the global attention on the Gaza war, very few commentators have remarked on the way that European imperialism laid the foundations for the Israel-Palestine conflict.

The final part of a three-part investigative series examines the experience of migrants in Europe.

The worry is that the Populist right current does lasting damage to democratic politics institutions and norms while in power

The political goal was a US and European effort to demonstrate the capacity for connectivity idea generation, or less generously, to try and out-China the Chinese Belt Road Initiative.

What role did the Arab-Andalusian Library and the works of Arab scholars play in establishing and developing the Oxford Library? Al Majalla explains.

A simple snapshot of a small grocery shop in Amsterdam reveals the power of human geography and how it can shape society. Without embracing diversity, European cities cannot re-invent themselves.

The intersection of several global movements and events eerily shares similarities with the turbulent global climate between the two World Wars in the 20th century