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Twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan is experiencing a strange new disintegration of its own…

A review of the book by Paul Cliteur…

Dawn Starin hopes that one day the women of the Gambia will escape the horror of female genital mutilation.…

Veronique Mistiaen…

A photograph of a young Iraqi symbolizes so much in an Iraq which remains in turmoil.…

Ayatollah Khomeini’s grandsons supporting the reformers? Demonstrations in the holy city of Qom? This is a new generation of resistance, as Nasrin Alavi shows in her latest survey of the Iranian blogosphere.…

Iranian ‘greens’ honour Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, whose criticisms of the state led to house arrest.…

*Hadani Ditmars* calls for a return to Islam’s spirit of democracy and pluralism.…

A gay Iraqi, a Jewish Iranian and a Saudi feminist tell their stories…

A divided society needs new answers and new identities, argues *Yasmin Alibhai-Brown*.…