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23 Feb 2023 1 minute read

Before Iran, the Kurdish feminist revolution

Rahila Gupta examines the precursor to Iran’s ‘first feminist revolution in the world’: a Kurdish feminist...

8 Feb 2023 4 minute read

The interview: Mohamad Hafez

The Syrian-American architect and artist about the power of nostalgia and his lifelong homesickness for Syria.

30 Jan 2023 7 minute read

Turkey is running northern Syria dry

Gisella Ligios reports from Rojava on the threat of food and water insecurity, and its impact on farming...

Naftali Bennett sits on a chair with his hands on his lap. He is looking to his left. There is a small table to his left wth a small Israeli flag on it. There are UN climate change logos on the wall behind him.

25 Aug 2022 3 minute read

Hall of Infamy: Naftali Bennett

The recently-departed Israeli PM was not so skilled in maneuvers as his supporters had hoped.

Unstoppable: Celebrating Pride in central Istanbul on 30 June 2019, despite the ban on the event. MURAD SEZER/REUTERS/ALAMY

10 Jun 2022 7 minute read

‘As long as the world keeps running, we’ll be here’

Branded as terrorists by President Erdoğan’s hardline regime, LGBTQI+ people in Turkey are finding ways to express...

A woman in protective clothing kneels down and searches for explosive ordnance

1 May 2022 4 minute read

Feel the fear and carry on

In Iraq a growing number of women are now doing the dangerous work of removing landmines – previously a male preserve....

14 Feb 2023 4 minute read

The interview: Muhanned Qafesha

Human rights activist Muhanned Qafesha talks about the life-and-death battle to defend Palestine from illegal demolitions and...

Girls sit at desks in a school classroom

2 Feb 2022 5 minute read

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Iraq: at a glance

For so long subject to ‘the tyranny of strangers’, Zoe Holman explores the ongoing appetite for change in...

Solidarity from the street: a march takes place in Ramallah, West Bank in support of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike against their administrative detention by Israel. AHMAD AL-BAZZ/ACTIVESTILLS

19 Jan 2022 6 minute read

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Prisoners of occupation

Palestinians continue to be brutalized in Israeli jails, despite international criticism. Kasturi Chakraborty...

18 Jan 2022 4 minute read

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‘This factory was killing our brothers and sisters in Palestine, we had to do something’

Bethany Rielly speaks to the campaigners who risked jail time to drive weapons manufacturer, Elbit Systems...

15 Aug 2021 3 minute read

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Is my daughter’s pro-Palestine activism turning antisemitic?

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter...

1 Jul 2021 4 minute read

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Alternative combat

Louisa Waugh speaks to activists in Israel and Palestine working together in the name of peace.

16 May 2021 8 minute read

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The storm which Netanyahu unleashed

With mounting corruption charges to his name, Israel’s Prime Minister is benefiting from militarized, brutal...

9 Mar 2021 5 minute read

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Yemen is not starving, Yemen is being starved

While the UN calls for international aid to avert famine in Yemen, the UK slashes its contribution. Sam Perlo-...

Wafa Ali Mustafa holds up a picture of her father during a demonstration on the International Day of the Disappeared, at Alexanderplatz, Berlin. Credit: Ahmad Kalaji

16 Jan 2021 9 minute read

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The search for Syria’s missing

The families of the disappeared are not giving up their search until they have answers. Jan-Peter Westad ...

29 Oct 2020 4 minute read

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‘My best jokes come from moments that have angered me’

US-Palestinian comedian Maysoon Zayid talks to Subi Shah about acting, politics, race and...

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