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