- Amelia Smith interviews Abdugheni Sabit, a Uyghur activist who left China in 2007 and settled in the Netherlands. Sabit is currently appealing to the international community to put pressure...
- Lofti Khalil was arrested outside a shop in Kafr El-Sheikh on 19 April 2015. His mother searched for him for over two months but heard nothing until eventually she...
- Shortly after dawn prayers on 8 July 2013 Egyptian security forces shot dead 51 protesters who had camped out at the Republican Guard headquarters in Cairo to call for...
- A new play tells the story of Palestinian poet Taha Ali and how he rebuilt his life after the Nakba
- On this day: The Egyptian army overthrew the country’s first democratically elected leader, Mohammed Morsi
- Amelia Smith interviews Rasha Ibrahim, the sister of Rania who lived with her two children on the 23rd floor of Grenfell Tower in west London, which suffered a devastating fire two weeks ago.
- Days after the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower, Nadia, a resident in the area, asked a reporter at Press TV why the media is refusing to report the real...
- The hypocrisy of Egypt's decision to join Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE in cutting off diplomatic ties with Qatar on the grounds that the Gulf state supports terrorism...
- In February 2016 Lina Ben Mhenni began an initiative to open libraries inside prisons across Tunisia as a way to counter extremism. When she announced the initiative on her...
- When Shenouda became Pope of the Coptic Church in 1971 there were only two Coptic churches in the US – one in New York and one in Los Angeles....
- It's hard to put your finger on where exactly the 'Muslim vote' stood vis a vis the French election. Even though Le Pen stirred up plenty of Islamophobic sentiment...
- How familiar are you with Middle Eastern Christian chants?
- These brutal killings were caught on video, along with the bodies of other men who appear to have suffered the same fate.
- Over the past two months, the world has witnessed some truly gruesome attacks and the loss of innocent civilian lives around the world. On 22 March, four people were...
- During his visit to the White House on Monday Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi told Trump he was confident the US President could broker a peace agreement between Israel...
- There are two notable things about Gaddafi, says Adam Curtis. The first is that he was obsessed with the idea he was a global thinker and the second is...
- "I always say that I try to bring dreams to a city in order to create joy," says Lebanese artist and architect Nadim Karam when I ask him about...
- Sheikh Abdo, a refugee from Syria, had nothing when he arrived in Lebanon but still offered sanctuary to others who had crossed the border. At first people were sleeping...
- By the time Zaradasht Ahmed had finished his education in 1991 the Gulf War had started and he was conscripted into the army. Instead of serving in the armed...
- In early December relatives of 29 Christians killed in a church bombing carried the coffins of the deceased through the streets of Nasr City, a district in Cairo, to...
- When recollecting the Nakba, Palestinian refugees in Syria recall fishing in the Jordan River, the trees on their land and the houses they once lived in. With these memories...
- When Omar's family crossed the Turkey-Bulgaria border it was February and it had begun to snow. Whilst the children took shelter, urinating on themselves to keep warm, Omar's father...
- On Saturday military strongman Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi promised to punish the "wrongdoers" responsible for the boat that capsized off the coast of Egypt last week. At least 194 people...
- In a recent interview with Channel 4 News one of President Assad's key advisors said reports of chlorine attacks on children are "irrelevant to reality". She was referring to...
- US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has become the latest in long line of world leaders queuing up to meet Egypt's President Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi. Whilst Clinton will meet...
- In June, Oscar-winning screenwriter David Franzoni announced his upcoming biography of the 13-century Persian poet Rumi, a production he believes will counter the negative portrayal of Muslims put forward...
- "There can be a pornographic interest in reducing Syrian and Palestinian artists to spectacles, relics and survivors"
- Ayman Abbasi was beaten so badly when he was arrested his parents could barely recognise their son at the court hearing. He was held at Almaskoubia interrogation centre, released...
- It took seven years to complete, over £10 million of taxpayers' money yet a paperback version will set you back by £767: The Chilcot report. For those that don't...
- Manar Shab'an builds vertical gardens by growing taller vine vegetables above varieties that grow in the shade they provide. In her greenhouses she weaves together vertical and horizontal growing...
- In the seventh century Arab World a king's legitimacy was recognised through the praise he received from his contemporary poets – because of this a ruler is often remembered...
- When Nai's mum was pregnant with her second daughter she asked her neighbours to help think of a name. "If I had a third daughter I would call her...