The pope and the European Parliament recently urged the Turkish government to recognise the Armenian mass killings as “genocide”, while others – including the US – have stopped short of […]
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ISIL’s iconoclasm is really about violent conquest, in which peoples and civilisations are threatened with extinction. The video of the destruction of Assyrian antiquities in the Mosul Museum by Islamic […]
In 1862, over half a century before the fall of the Ottoman Empire and before the British and French carved up the Middle East, the then Prince of Wales went […]
Lebanon’s personal status and citizenship laws are sexist and create more statelessness. Though it likes to think of itself as the most liberated Arab country, Lebanon needs to admit that […]
It wasn’t as if Lebanon didn’t have troubles enough, with a shaky government finally formed last month. But the Syrian refugee crisis is taking a huge toll on a country […]
The London Magazine The current ‘Hajj’ exhibition at the British Museum has been praised by Brian Sewell as ‘an exhibition of profound cultural importance’ and criticized by Mehdi Hasan as […]
A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle That Shaped the Middle East The history of British and French intervention in the modern Middle East makes a pretty […]
Women have rights and we’re not going to lose them now. In the days immediately following the toppling of President Zine El Abedine Ben Ali on 14 January, Tunis was […]
Over Easter weekend, the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad launched a brutal crackdown on the peaceful protests that have been gathering force across the country in the last five […]