The results of Sunday’s general elections in France have brought some relief to Europeans anxious about another far-right government being formed within the European Union.…
Cookies. Pizza. Cake. All are delicious – but potentially deadly. In addition to their often-high sugar, salt or fat content, these foods can also contain…
In Kenyan political mythology, 1982 was the year it all went wrong. In that year, a failed military coup transformed the previously genteel ruler Daniel…
In a couple of weeks, on July 26, the 2024 Olympic Games will begin in Paris, bringing joy, excitement and, perhaps most importantly, a renewed…
When Clarissa Mwanza spoke to me of her work mining zinc in central Zambia, she looked anxious. Her husband, working alongside her, nearly died last…
A coalition of left-wing parties, the New Popular Front (NFP), has won the highest number of seats in the French National Assembly, preventing a much-feared…
Al-Mawasi used to be a rare beauty spot on the otherwise overcrowded coast of the Gaza Strip. Stretching for about 12km (7.5 miles) between Khan…
I had my first nightmare about Gaza six weeks after the end of my first deployment with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of…
It has been nine months since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, which has killed more than 38,000 Palestinians, injured more than 86,000,…
It is the morning after the night before, and the United Kingdom has a new government. Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has won the general election…
The risk of a devastating famine is rising exponentially across Sudan. According to a recent report by the United Nations’ hunger monitor, a “stark and rapid…
The past few months of student protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, and the way they were suppressed by the authorities and maligned as “violent”…
Monday was a good day for Donald Trump, the former United States president and current Republican presidential hopeful, who is waging a forever war to…
For my colleague Mariam*, every morning is a prayer. After leaving her children at school in a suburb near Nablus, she hopes that nothing will…
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a TV ad asking whether President Biden’s claims on the economy were a case of dishonesty or…
In the past nine months, national and local authorities in the United States have tried to suppress and criminalise Palestinian activism and expressions of identity.…
“Nobody thought we could do it, and we still did it,” Marine Tondelier, the leader of the French Green Party, said as she rejoiced the…
In February, as the Australian summer drew to a close, environmental activist Ali Alishah walked into the Styx Valley in Tasmania, Australia’s southernmost state. Alongside…
I met my maternal uncle, Burhan, for the first time in 2018. At the time, I was living in Istanbul, and he had taken refuge…
There is no excuse to be silent over the role of companies linked to Israel’s illegal actions in the occupied Palestinian territory and its war…