Interviews

Palestinian artist Hazem Harb doesn't try to define the idea of Palestine in his work. "For me, Palestine just is," he tells me. "I'm interested in its history and...

Over the course of the ongoing decade-long Syrian conflict, documentation of the war and its effects has always been desired by the outside world

A Palestinian student born and raised in a refugee camp in Lebanon has been selected as one of the top 50 finalists for the 2021 Chegg Global Student Prize....

Using one of the world's most abundant and renewable elements, Palestinian sand artist Rana Al-Ramlawi highlights the Palestinian cause and Israel's siege of the Gaza Strip in her work....

Death, destruction and endless streams of refugees have become a common theme in the documentation of war, to the point of becoming almost numbing in their repetitiveness. However, another...

For a Palestinian-Syrian-Ukrainian who grew up in the largest refugee camp in Syria, becoming a dancer doesn't strike me as the most obvious career choice. Yet of the three...

Algerian judoka Fethi Nourine talks to Eman Abusidu

It can't have been easy for someone to be born in one country, grow up in another, live in a third and represent a fourth in the Olympics. That,...

In the early hours of Tuesday, the Taliban celebrated the departure of the last US plane of soldiers and their ambassador from Afghanistan, after a 20-year US-led occupation of...

Hanna is 1 of 5 athletes representing Palestine at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics the occupied country's 7th appearance at the games

Many of us have misconceptions and preconceived ideas about the art scene in the Gulf countries. Hence, when we see the work of a gallery like Hunna/ هُنَّ —...

Last week, the founder of Palestine Travellers, Ramzi Abbasi, posted a video on Instagram showing the moment when he and his friends held the flag of Palestine aloft at...

Swimmer Dania Nour carried the Palestinian flag at the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics this summer, showcasing her culture on a world stage is the best thing she’s ever done

Ahmad Mansour’s ambition is "to be one of the leading names in this field and, in the future, to open a company in the development and manufacturing of robots that help people make their lives easier."

Many of us have never heard about the martyrs of Al-Buraq Revolution except through the popular song "Min Sijjin Akka" ("From Akka Prison"), which mentions Fouad Hijazi, Atta Al-Zeer,...

Before pursuing a career in comedy, Noam worked as the co-director of Interpeace, an organisation founded by the UN

Interview with Samah Abu Khury by Ahmad Alzoubi

'Life for a fisherman is always hard, everywhere, but under Israel’s military occupation it is even harder.'

Day after day, Palestinians wait for long hours at chaotic Israeli military checkpoints intended to break their morale, destroy their dignity and inject fear into them. It's a heartbreaking...

On 1 June Abeer Hassan's brother left the house to deliver some cash to a colleague, a short trip around the block that should have taken a maximum of...

Interview with Rafik Abdel Salam

In an interview, Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid says Ankara should help rebuild and unite Afghanistan after decades of war and pull its armed forces out 

Social media has played a major role in spreading awareness of the Palestinian cause, providing a voice to those marginalised by the mainstream. Now, though, social media outlets are...

'The soul that fights in us' are the words which Palestinian artist Belal Khaled spent four days drawing onto the 50 metre long, seven metre high bombed wall of...

After fleeing Syria because of their work as reporters, four refugees are working to teach Europeans more about the new faces living amongst them.

Mohammad Dweekat has been living since 2007 with his mother and two sisters in an old rented house in Rafah, a city in the south of the Gaza Strip....

Egyptian space scientist Essam Hajji has said that Egypt will face an unknown water future, even if it overcomes the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam crisis. He is convinced that...

Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip are being psychologically tortured. Growing up with periods of prolonged fear and abuse has devastating physical and mental consequences, and young people are...

Lucia Helena Issa talks to journalist Shatha Hammad

Algerian researcher and adviser to the Afghanistan High Peace Council (HPC) Abdullah Anas confirmed that Turkey's proposal that its forces remain to secure Kabul International Airport after the departure of NATO forces...

Female racing drivers are rare, but they do exist. This is disappointing, said Toni Breidinger, who has broken through in the male-dominated sport. "My first reaction to being the...

Jordanian writer Jalal Barjas has won the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, administered by the Booker Prize Foundation, for his novel Notebooks of the Bookseller. The prize is...