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How the world grew to understand the Nakba

Recognising the catastrophe of Palestinian expulsion in 1948, the Arabic term 'Nakba' has emerged as a political concept, using collective memory as resistance

Saudi Human Rights

The nightmare inside Saudi Arabia's shelters for women and girls

Iran and the US: When friends fall out

'Do you think we should all go home?' How Saudi Arabian money ignited a golf war

The Conservative Party and its cold war against Islam

'Ripping it apart': How an anti-discrimination law transformed Istanbul

There were bodies as far as the eye could see. Remembering Rabaa, 10 years on

The Silicon Valley 'progressive' pushing for closer US ties to Modi's India

'The only solution is to leave': Suspected police killing intensifies misery in Marseille

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A massacre and a cover-up: How Baghdad protesters were gunned down by Iraqi forces

Syria war: Inside the world of HTS leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani

A prayer for Lydd: Maps and memories that the Nakba could never erase

Gaza Under Attack

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

'Screwdriver': The secret British plan to abandon Bosnia as Srebrenica fell

Lewis Hamilton and the battle for Formula One's place in the Gulf

The Tories are coming for the BBC

From Balfour to Johnson: How hypocrisy and skulduggery define British policy on Palestine

Uighur activists: Stuck between Chinese persecution and US imperialism

'We can't speak': 10 years on, Bahrain's democracy movement has been crushed

Adnan Oktar: The rise and fall of a Turkish sex cult leader

Caliphate: How the New York Times' Islamic State scoop unravelled

‘An honorary Muslim’: The police spy who monitored London's mosques in plain sight

France: The war on Islam and the new security state

Qassem Soleimani

Soleimani's shadow: How the general's death upended Iranian strategy in Iraq

The power of soil: How our precarious climate shaped the Arab Spring