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'I'm 22 and I lost 22 family members': Palestinian artist paints to grieve loss

Zainab al-Qulaq lost 22 members of her family when she was 22 years old. She hopes her artwork can inform the international community on what happened during last year's bombing campaign on Gaza.

Israeli forces assault Palestinians as they demolish family homes in Jerusalem A year on from Israeli bombing, Gaza families still can’t rebuild

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Peter Oborne

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Saudi-Turkish reconciliation is a cause for concern in Iran

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Opinion

Biden is fiddling as Jerusalem burns

David Hearst

It's time Liz Truss spoke out in defence of democracy in Egypt

Peter Oborne

Texas shooting: American gun violence is the whole world's problem

Azad Essa

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

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Omar Khalifah

Lebanon: New opposition must seize this moment for change

Marco Carnelos

George Bush’s admission of his crimes in Iraq was no ‘gaffe’

Jonathan Cook

Will Israel survive?

Gideon Levy

What unites and divides the world's most prominent Islamic scholars?

Jaan Islam

Iraq sandstorms: The dual threat of climate change and bad governance

Ibrahim al-Marashi

Douglas Murray and the mainstreaming of the 'Great Replacement' theory

Peter Oborne

What contemporary Iranian art can tell us about the world

Hamid Dabashi

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Shireen Abu Akleh killing: How western media parrots Israeli propaganda

Abir Kopty

Palestine State

Palestine: Do Birzeit University election results mark a turning point?

Hani al-Masri

Lebanon elections and the paradox of 'elite populism'

Wissam Saade

Saudi-Turkish reconciliation is a cause for concern in Iran

Ali Bakir

Palestine State

Why Palestine desperately needs a unified national leadership

Ghada Karmi

Syria war: Can Turkey reach its target of returning one million refugees?

Omer Ozkizilcik

Russia-Ukraine war

How the Russia-Ukraine war is changing Ankara's relationship with Moscow

Taha Ozhan

How Britain rewards Israel for its war crimes

Husam Zomlot

UK anti-BDS bill threatens democracy and gives Israel a free pass

Kamel Hawwash

Turkey Politics

Turkey’s recurring quest for security, status, and geopolitical identity

Galip Dalay

The violence of Pakistan’s Afghan policy

Syed Irfan Ashraf

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Shireen Abu Akleh was executed to send a message to Palestinians

Jonathan Cook

Why Israel's leaders and allies are in a state of panic over its future

Joseph Massad

Keir Starmer has returned western imperialism to the core of Labour policy

Jonathan Cook

Turkey Politics

Why peace between Turkey and Syria is a long way off

Christopher Phillips

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Shireen Abu Akleh killing: The West cannot wash away the stain of complicity

David Hearst

Russia-Ukraine war

Has the Ukraine war become a runaway train for both Russia and Nato?

Marco Carnelos

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The Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: Colonial constructs and the hidden stories of the Old City

Beyond diversity: How Black and Muslim women are changing the publishing industry

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Annual iftar in Istanbul brings migrants and locals together

Eid al-Fitr: Six different ways to say Eid Mubarak

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Vikings, human sacrifice and bad hygiene: Early Islamic descriptions of Russia and Ukraine

The Oracle of Siwa: How a remote oasis in Egypt drew history's most powerful men

Partridge eyes and stars: Traditional tattoos of Amazigh, Bedouin and Kurdish women

Abdulmecid II: Artist, musician and the last caliph of Islam

Ukraine: Seven of the country's most important mosques

A glimpse of life in the Middle East before colonial borders

International Women's Day: Five Palestinian women you should know about

Molokhia: How a humble green leaf both divides and conquers the Middle East

Orientalism, exoticism, deception: The story of the Arabian Nights

'How will it end?': Lebanese artists and the Beirut blast

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'Israel not winning PR fight': Amnesty chief discusses 'apartheid' report

Explained: The history of the Houthis

Al-Qaeda, Taliban and the history of the Mujahideen

Egypt: Protests outside Giza factory after worker’s suicide

Former Louvre director detained in Egyptian antiquities fraud case

'I was thrown under the bus': Ex-Guantanamo prisoner on why he’s suing the Canadian government

Cornel West on the complicity of US media in Israeli crimes

Palestine State

Israeli forces assault Palestinians as they demolish family homes in Jerusalem

Eyewitness: Egypt's forgotten prisoners

Palestine State

West Bank: Israeli forces kill Palestinian teenager in Nablus and wound 80 others

State-sanctioned killings rise in Middle East as executions spike in Iran and Saudi Arabia

Jamal al-Durrah: 'To this day, the perpetrators were not held accountable'

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Shireen Abu Akleh: New footage shows no fighting before killing of journalist

France: Government to challenge city council’s decision to allow ‘burkinis’ in its public pools

Yemenis abroad react to reopening of Sanaa Airport

Egypt: Hosni Mubarak’s son says family clear of corruption charges

Russia-Ukraine War

Russia-Ukraine war

Putin apologises to Israeli prime minister over Lavrov's Hitler comments

Russia-Ukraine war

How Russia's war in Ukraine is taking the world back to the future

Dominique Vidal

Russia-Ukraine war

Russia accuses Israel of sending mercenaries to Ukraine

Russia-Ukraine war

Why is Ukrainian resistance celebrated but Palestinians' condemned?

Nadeine Asbali

Russia-Ukraine war

Ukraine sought Turkish weapons worth hundreds of millions of dollars from EU

Russia-Ukraine war

Russia pulls mercenaries from Libya following setbacks in Ukraine

Russia-Ukraine war

Meet the Afghan refugees fighting Russia's latest invasion

Russia-Ukraine war

Ukrainian TB2 Bayraktar drone 'bombed oil depots deep inside Russia'

Russia-Ukraine war

In the West's response to the Russia-Ukraine war, emotion has overcome reason

Marco Carnelos

Russia-Ukraine war

Turkey's Caucasian minorities denounce Chechen leader Kadyrov as 'Putin's puppet'

Russia-Ukraine war

Russian oligarch Deripaska's yacht arrives in Turkish waters

Russia-Ukraine war

Russia accuses Israel of using Ukraine as 'distraction' from Palestine issue

Russia-Ukraine war

The foreign volunteers who went from fighting Islamic State to aiding Ukraine

Russia-Ukraine war

Russia-Ukraine war: Wife of Putin's 'best friend' asks Erdogan to free him from detention

Russia-Ukraine war

The Russia-Ukraine war and the crisis of liberalism

Andreas Krieg

Russia-Ukraine war

Is Europe sleepwalking towards the abyss in Ukraine?

Marco Carnelos

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Lawyers to add Shireen Abu Akleh killing to Israel war crimes ICC case

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Al Jazeera to send Shireen Abu Akleh killing case to ICC

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Weapons expert concludes Israeli soldier 'intentionally targeted' Shireen Abu Akleh

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

The unbearable loss of Shireen Abu Akleh

Omar Khalifah

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Cornel West: US media is complicit in the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Palestinian foreign minister calls on ICC to probe Shireen Abu Akleh's killing

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

AOC hits out at US aid to Israel following Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

London's Metropolitan Police face criticism for hosting Israeli police delegation

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Shireen Abu Akleh: Dozens of US lawmakers demand FBI probe into killing

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Shireen Abu Akleh: New footage shows no fighting before killing of journalist

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

New footage shows no fighting before Shireen Abu Akleh is shot dead by Israeli forces

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Shireen Abu Akleh: Celebrities demand accountability for journalist's killing

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Shireen Abu Akleh: Israel won't investigate killing of Palestinian-American journalist

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Shireen Abu Akleh funeral: Palestinian suffers fractures at hands of Israeli forces

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Shireen Abu Akleh: New footage shows police storming hospital before funeral

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Shireen Abu Akleh: Pallbearers nearly drop coffin as Israeli police hit mourners

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Violence then peace: Shireen Abu Akleh laid to rest in Jerusalem

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Shireen Abu Akleh killing: How western media parrots Israeli propaganda

Abir Kopty

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Israel says 'not possible' to determine who shot Shireen Abu Akleh

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Israeli forces assault mourners carrying Shireen Abu Akleh's casket to her final resting place

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Shireen Abu Akleh was executed to send a message to Palestinians

Jonathan Cook

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Shireen Abu Akleh killing: The legal mechanisms available for justice

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Shireen Abu Akleh killing: Israel investigating three separate shooting incidents

Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Visual investigation: Who killed Shireen Abu Akleh?

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Israel-Gaza: Was the latest assault a tipping point in the Palestinian struggle?

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