October 27, 2016
October 27 marks the 85th birthday of celebrated Egyptian feminist, writer and doctor, Nawal El Saadawi. With a bibliography consisting of...
Reviews
April 10, 2016
A caliphate, according to Muhammad Qasim Zaman in the Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World , “symbolizes…the classical history of...
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November 8, 2015
“Now we have to start from scratch again. It’s so devastating,” said the filmmaker Khadija Al-Salami who has been fighting for girls and...
Reportage
October 22, 2015
Bangkok’s little-known population of Pakistani asylum seekers uses community action to respond to the challenges facing refugees without a...
blog
August 27, 2015
The exhibition She Who Tells a Story , featuring the work of women photographers from several Arab countries and Iran, is on display at the...
blog
May 5, 2015
Genitals are political. In the UK our genitals are policed, and in our current electoral moment, astoundingly falsified information is...
blog
April 10, 2015
When people in the US and Europe think of Peshawar, Pakistan, they perceive it as a hub of religiosity and extremism. Such a perception is...
column
April 9, 2015
Algiers On this morning cracked with disappointments when blue has left the sea to invade the hill in a uniformed chain tightening on the...
Opinion
February 8, 2015
On February 1, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), the first Eurosceptic upstart party in decades, ended its three-day conference in Bremen...