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Published in: Home: InvestigationSign up to our coronavirus DemocracyWatch newsletter
Regimes around the world are rushing through anti-democratic measures. Sign up to our newsletter to follow the crackdown.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCOVID-19 in Iraq: the virus of social inequality
The coronavirus is above all a fight against the corrupt state and the social inequalities produced by it.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSectarianism will not defeat coronavirus: no one is immune
Are religious ideologues on coronavirus threatening to tear apart the much needed human solidarity to overcome the pandemic?
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionCan the coronavirus save the planet?
The corona crisis signifies a civilization that is dying. But it also shows a 'pluriverse' of other worlds rising up.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaYemen: the COVID-19 pandemic threatens the war torn country
The 5th anniversary of the war in Yemen is a time for stock taking about the changes in the past year and prospects...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionEvery cent lost to tax havens could be used to strengthen our health and social systems
It’s women in the informal sector who are suffering the harshest effects of our broken tax system.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe British government has abandoned the Global South to coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic could be a ticking time bomb for the world’s most vulnerable people. Yet just when global...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhat the coronavirus outbreak means for thousands of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
Without access to health care, anxieties and fear intensified as refugees face the increasing threat of a COVID-19 outbreak.
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Published in: HomeIs US and Iranian military posturing meant to distract from COVID-19 failure?
It would be crazy to start a major war in the middle of the pandemic – but don’t put anything past Trump and his...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCasualties of ‘war on terror’ in Iraq: life, security and liberty
Mapping the conflict and its casualties can change our understanding of this war and any war.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPalestine: Olive trees don’t catch coronavirus
While the world struggles to face the coronavirus pandemic, the Israeli army scrambles to uproot olive trees.
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Published in: Home‘Light touch’ or boots on the ground? US warfare has failed either way
High-tech warfare is not defeating the US’s many enemies any better than its vast army did – and that leaves the...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia‘Bots’ and bans: social media and regime propaganda in the Middle East
Regimes in the Middle East are constantly evolving their propaganda strategies to keep up with the new forms of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow do Syrian directors see censorship today?
Towards a new understanding of censorship, and its impact on Syrian cinema.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA matter of life or death: Syrian journalists have nowhere to turn
In Syria, journalists report the news while facing threats from all sides of the war. Now we must do our part to...
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Published in: HomeViolent Islamism is gaining the upper hand in Afghanistan and Africa
Military responses haven’t defeated the Taliban and won’t stop ISIS, but the West refuses to address the root causes...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWelcome to the Palestine archipelago
Trump’s so called “deal of the century” is an assault on the Palestinian narrative even before it is an assault on...
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Published in: Global ExtremesIs Al-Azhar pushing the envelope?
Shaykh al-Azhar, Ahmed al-Tayyib criticised the state of Arabs and Muslims worldwide – including, one presumes, its rulers.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEthiopians in Lebanon: between revolution and slavery
The Ethiopian government continues to sidestep taking any meaningful action to rescue citizens trapped in revolution...
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Published in: HomeBomb Idlib’s civilians, win the war: what the West taught Assad and Putin
The tactics of Syrian and Russian forces are unforgiveable – but scarcely different to what the US and its allies...