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Dutch writer, journalist and performer Christine Otten attends a photocall during the annual Edinburgh International Book Festival at George Street on August 23, 2017, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Roberto Ricciuti / Getty Images

Christine Otten on telling the stories of the marginalised

The Dutch novelist is famous for capturing the rhythm and style of the poets who became the forefathers of hip-hop, but her work has also brought civil rights leaders and refugees to life

Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy 23 September 2025
Displaced Palestinians flee northern Gaza on September 18, 2025, due to an Israeli military operation, moving with their belongings to the south after Israeli forces ordered residents of Gaza City to evacuate. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa

Palestinians flee Gaza City amid terrifying Israeli invasion

Israeli ministers boast that "Gaza is burning" after the US gives the green light to empty Gaza city of its residents. Meanwhile, the massacres and maiming continue.

Salem Al Rayyes 19 September 2025
Middle East Quartet envoy Tony Blair (C) waves as he leaves a UN-run school sheltering Palestinians, whose houses were destroyed by Israeli airstrikes during the 2014 war, in Gaza City on February 15, 2015. SUHAIB SALEM / AFP

Tony Blair's hand in Gaza's 'Day After' raises eyebrows

Despite his reputation for failure, the former UK premier has ironically emerged as the voice of moderation next to more extreme figures in Trump's orbit

Bryn Haworth 18 September 2025

No red light for Israel's Gaza city invasion

Fares Garabet 17 September 2025
Lina Jaradat

Butterfly effect: can the Palestine protest movement turn the tide?

For nearly two years, protests around the world calling for an end to Israel's war on Gaza haven't fizzled out, but grown. Their geographic reach and longevity appear to have no precedent in history.

Bryn Haworth 16 September 2025
Screens show the number of votes as members of the United Nations General Assembly vote on the Palestinian issue and the implementation of the two-state solution, at the UN headquarters in New York on September 12, 2025. Reuters

The world inches towards Palestine recognition. Too little, too late?

Palestinians do not have the luxury of time. The prospect of their state is vanishing before their very eyes. What will next week's UN General Assembly bring?

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 15 September 2025
A guard stands outside the damaged National Museum of Yemen building in the aftermath of Israeli airstrikes, in Sanaa, Yemen, September 11, 2025. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

As Israel steps up regional attacks, Yemen bears the brunt

Apart from its ongoing genocide in Gaza, Israel has, this week, attacked Syria, Lebanon, Tunisia and, most shockingly, Qatar—a staunch US ally. But in Yemen, it's been especially brutal.

Anwar Al-Ansi 14 September 2025
A girl stands embracing a man as they inspect destroyed bulldozers and other heavy vehicles at the Jabalia municipality garage, which was hit by Israeli bombardment, in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on April 22, 2025. BASHAR TALEB / AFP

Exploding robots: Israel's latest hammer to level Gaza

Vast areas of the Strip are being flattened. Even trees are being destroyed, lest a Palestinian hide behind them. Increasingly, explosive-laden vehicles are being sent to do the damage.

Salem Al Rayyes 13 September 2025

From covert to overt: Netanyahu's Doha strike is telling

His emerging strategy shows a willingness to gamble on high-profile assassinations, even at the expense of diplomatic blowback, regional stability, and fragile negotiations

Michael Horowitz 11 September 2025
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa (L), accompanied by Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty (C), arrives at an airport in El-Arish on August 18, 2025, to visit Palestinians wounded in Israel's war on Gaza. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP

If Qatar taps out, Egypt can pick up the Gaza mediation baton

Doha says it will keep up its efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza, despite Israel's targeting of Hamas leaders on its soil, but some are doubtful. But is peace even possible at this point?

Amr Emam 11 September 2025
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Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa (L) visits the polling station where members of Syrian local committees have been casting their votes to select members of an interim parliament, in Damascus on October 5, 2025. LOUAI BESHARA / AFP
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Med market? Europe eyes closer trade with North Africa

01 October 2025

After being hit by tariffs from its Washington ally, Brussels is seeking to diversify its business partners. Across the Mediterranean Sea, states offer labour, materials, and markets

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Palestinian artist breathes life and meaning into Jaffa’s shoreline shards

03 October 2025

Mohammad Qundus uses the fragments of former lives in his latest exhibition that seeks to reaffirm the Palestinian presence of today and its connection to the past

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