In the media frenzy surrounding the escalating refugee crisis in Europe, and particularly in the wake of the Paris attacks on 13 November in which there have been hints...

There is a moment towards the beginning of Marsha Emerman’s award-winning documentary On the Banks of the Tigris in which the protagonist and co-collaborator of the film Majid Shokor...

"Hip hop is a school," says Yassin Alsalman, better known by his MC title of "the Narcicyst", or simple "Narcy", "it's a school that taught me a lot about...

As the birthplace of Christianity, the Middle East has historically been home to a significant proportion of Christians, the vast majority native Arabs who held on to their Christianity...

Author: Ramy M.K. Aly Publisher: Pluto Press (2015) Hardcover: 272 pages ISBN: 978-07453-3358-8 Review by Emmanuela Eposti "What is it that really makes summer in the city?… It is...

"The Saudis bring stability back to the region, and stop Iranian intervention. That is the larger picture; that is the larger aim." Never one...

"Sectarianism" has fast become the buzz word of the 21st century Middle East politics; rolled out and dusted off every time a journalist or political analyst wants to make...

In the media haze of information and mis-information that proliferates about the conflicts that continue to rage throughout Iraq and Syria, there is one word that has emerged over...

"There is a wish for Palestinians to be stateless, but also faceless and voiceless." Samah Jabr, one of Palestine's first female psychiatrists and a trained psychoanalytic psychotherapist, has spent...