• ECRF: Fighting for life and freedom in Egypt

    Alessio Perrone meets the activists fighting to shine light on human rights abuses during Egypt’s dark days.

  • A potter at his wheel at Fustat Pottery Village, Credit: Layla Hamed.

    Egypt – at a glance

    Tom Dale profiles one of the former hotspots of the 2011 Arab Spring, a nation now experiencing a counter-revolutionary moment. 

  • Jailed Nubian activist dies in custody

    In the wake of the tragic loss, Mohammed Elnaiem looks back at years of resistance.

  • Alaa Abd el-Fattah

    Free Alaa!

    The activists of the Arab Spring have faced a devastating backlash. We must support them, writes Nanjala Nyabola.

  • US Israel leaders Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu

    The US is no honest broker in Israel and Palestine

    The US was always biased in the Middle East. But with Trump, things are getting much worse, Adam Keller explains.

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    Justice for Giulio Regeni

    Two years since the murder of an Italian student in Cairo, the Egyptian regime has yet to acknowledge the nature of its involvement writes Yohann Koshy.

  • A council of citizens and state officials deliberate over Algeria's just transition away from extractive industries. Crowds of people and workers celebrate watching over the economic and social changes taking place, including low-intensive agriculture and solar panel implementation in the background.

    Just transition – now or never

    As Egypt prepares to host the latest UN climate conference, COP27, Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell call time on ‘business as usual’, which in North Africa means non-solutions that line private pockets at public expense and protect…

  • Migrant deaths cartoon by Papadam/Shutterstock

    Migrant deaths: tragedy – or murder?

    Nanjala Nyabola asks why migration policies have become so deadly, and what it will take to change them.
  • An illustration by Syrian artist Haya Halaw depicts a woman refugee holding a minature house on fire.

    ‘They’ve never experienced being a refugee’

    Who is better placed to cover forced migration than refugees themselves? Bairbre Flood reports on the journalists putting refugees’ voices at the heart of the conversation.

  • : A woman crosses the Qalandiya check point, the biggest in the occupied West Bank, in 2014. ROGER GARFIELD/ALAMY

    Palestine: From accord to Apartheid

    In the lead story from our May-June 2023 issue, Zoe Holman looks at how the so-called ‘peace process’ has allowed Israel to deepen its colonial project over Palestinian lives.
  • A portrait of Tunisian president Kais Saied. KHALED NASRAOUI/DPA/ALAMY

    Hall of Infamy: Kais Saied

    An autocrat in institutional clothing, the Tunisian president has crushed the hopes of democrats in the birthplace of the Arab Spring.
  • A Metropolitan Police officer approaches Just Stop Oil activists as they demonstrate on Highbury Corner in north London on November 30, 2022.  (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images)

    Is England sliding further towards authoritarianism?

    Stronger policing powers, harsher sentences and higher fines. Democratic protest is under threat from Westminster, as the sentencing of a Just Stop Oil activist this week shows. Andrea Brock and Nathan Stephens-Griffin write.

  • One eye on nature

    Aruna Chandrasekhar argues that we need to keep one eye on the ‘other COP’.

  • Standing firm against BP sponsorship of British Museum’s ‘Troy’ exhibition on 8 February 2020. Hundreds of activists trying to end the artwash were also joined by a giant Trojan horse. IMAGEPLOTTER/ALAMY

    Ending the artwash

    UK arts had largely ditched fossil fuel sponsorships after years of activism. Danny Chivers reports on how industry ties have been reshaped.
  • A woman who became displaced walks with her baby amid tents, following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Sehwan, Pakistan September 13, 2022. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

    We need action on ‘loss and damage’ now

    Anmol Irfan speaks to climate activists in Pakistan and Somalia about the call for countries who carry much of the responsibility for the climate crisis to take meaningful action at COP27.

  • Fighting the fossils

    Profiles of groups from Palestine, Mozambique, Uganda and India who are saying no to new oil and gas infrastructure.

  • Patel (pictured) has sought to add a provision to her bill that would grant border force staff ‘immunity’ for any migrant deaths during ‘turnaround tactics’ – where officers force small boats back into French waters.

    Contempt for migrants is being enshrined into British law

    Offshore detention facilities, redefining the category of ‘refugee’ and legal exemptions for border guards. If allowed to pass, Priti Patel’s Nationality and Borders Bill spells dark days ahead for asylum seekers in the UK. …

  • South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa sits next to Russia’s Vladimir Putin during the plenary session at the Russia-Africa Summit held in Sochi, Russia, in 2019. South African government/Flickr

    Africa deals with the ripple effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine

    Can the quest for peace in Europe bring calm at home? Rosebell Kagumire asks.
  • French biochemist Louise Pasteur in his laboratory, where he developed pioneering vaccines against the chicken cholera and rabies using ‘attenuated’ or weakened bacteria. GL Archive/Alamy

    A history of vaccines

    It’s been a long – and, at times, disgusting – story. Swagata Yadavar begins in 1000 CE.

  • The Interview: Kate Raworth

    As ecological collapse looms, our growth-at-all costs economic system urgently requires a different vision. Renegade economist Kate Raworth is preaching a new mindset fit for the challenges ahead. She spoke to…