Migration is an issue that has very much been dominating news channels in recent months and years, especially in light of the ongoing influx of desperate refugees to Europe...
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Lebanon has often been heralded as an impossible state, a delicate balancing act of sectarian and partisan concerns that threatens to crumble at the slightest whiff of political or...
Having finally seemed to succumb to political pressure both at home and abroad, earlier this week David Cameron announced that the UK would “live up to its moral responsibility”...
Exclusive interview with Dr Guillaume Long, Ecuadorian Minister of Culture and Heritage In June 1959, dressed in full military regalia and surrounded by an entourage of Fidel Castro’s men,...
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...
Exile and war have long been dominant themes in the work of Iraqi artist Yousif Naser; pain and death rendered in large, black strokes, a chaotic jumble of eerie...
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Emmanuela Eposti “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...
On 16 May, 2003, Iraqi excavation teams uncovered the first of what would become a gruesome series of mass graves scattered across the country that bore physical testament to...
As the shockwaves from the recent devastating earthquake in Nepal have rippled across the globe, so too have international and multilateral pledges to provide the country with financial and...
Nearly 2,000 people have been killed this year while attempting to make the perilous sea journey across the Mediterranean to the supposed safe haven of Europe – or rather,...
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...
In a recent article for the London Review of Books entitled “The new world disorder”, Tariq Ali argues that “he occupation of Iraq one of the most destructive...
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“What does it mean when a society disintegrates? What do people do? How do they make sense of a world in which the human dimension is missing completely?” Iraqi...
Very few enduring historical conflicts have involved such a polarisation of discourse and a reliance on racialised constructions of the other than that between Israel and the Palestinians. Even...
Migration is an issue that has very much been dominating news channels in recent months and years, especially in light of the ongoing influx of desperate refugees to Europe...
In the historical iconography of New York, few places capture the imagination more than Ellis Island, the gateway to America and the first port of call for millions of...
In a country torn apart by war it can be difficult to envisage what will become of the buildings, towns and cities that people have called home when the...
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...
Lebanon has often been heralded as an impossible state, a delicate balancing act of sectarian and partisan concerns that threatens to crumble at the slightest whiff of political or...
Having finally seemed to succumb to political pressure both at home and abroad, earlier this week David Cameron announced that the UK would “live up to its moral responsibility”...
Exclusive interview with Dr Guillaume Long, Ecuadorian Minister of Culture and Heritage In June 1959, dressed in full military regalia and surrounded by an entourage of Fidel Castro’s men,...
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...
Exile and war have long been dominant themes in the work of Iraqi artist Yousif Naser; pain and death rendered in large, black strokes, a chaotic jumble of eerie...
“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...
On 16 May, 2003, Iraqi excavation teams uncovered the first of what would become a gruesome series of mass graves scattered across the country that bore physical testament to...
As the shockwaves from the recent devastating earthquake in Nepal have rippled across the globe, so too have international and multilateral pledges to provide the country with financial and...
Nearly 2,000 people have been killed this year while attempting to make the perilous sea journey across the Mediterranean to the supposed safe haven of Europe – or rather,...
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...
In a recent article for the London Review of Books entitled “The new world disorder”, Tariq Ali argues that “he occupation of Iraq one of the most destructive...
In the heady aftermath of the 2011 uprisings that swept the Arab world from the Maghreb to the Gulf, the unprecedented rise of Islamist parties in countries such as...
“What does it mean when a society disintegrates? What do people do? How do they make sense of a world in which the human dimension is missing completely?” Iraqi...
Very few enduring historical conflicts have involved such a polarisation of discourse and a reliance on racialised constructions of the other than that between Israel and the Palestinians. Even...