Watanili: Helping Syrian children to rediscover childhood
Through art, film and education, Watanili is a grassroots initiatives which is working to give traumatised Syrian kids a dose of normal childhood.
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Orientalism for kids
Despite the racism contained in Tintin and other classic children’s tales, I believe that children should be exposed to them.
Read moreFrom Gaza’s sinking boat to the Tahini Sea
Gazans Amer and Saleh felt “condemned to failure”, so they decided to escape to Europe. Sadly, their aborted endeavour ended in narrowly averted death.
Read moreTaxing questions about democracy in the Middle East
In the Middle East, there appears to be a link between autocracy and low taxes. Would higher taxation lead to greater representation or repression?
Read moreOne year on: Gaza, life with hard labour
With rubble Gaza’s only growth industry, people are unable to pick up the pieces of their broken lives, face psychological ruin and dream of escape.
Read moreThe occupational handicaps of being Palestinian
Living with disability is always a challenge but if you’re a Palestinian living under Israeli occupation you are doubly handicapped.
Read moreThe tip of Egypt’s snobbery iceberg
The replacement of one snobbish justice minister in Egypt with another who believes judges are lords and masters shows how deep elitism runs.
Read moreMaking halal sexy
Though halal sex may sound as logical as kosher bacon, it does make its own sense. Some Muslims are utilising the concept to break the taboo around sex.
Read moreYoung and futureless in Iraq under ISIS
Mosul’s youth are desperate, disillusioned and terrified because “ISIS will never let us have a future, we could die any second.”
Read moreISIS’s war on women in Mosul
Before ISIS began targeting Iraq’s minorities and cultural heritage, it set to work veiling women in a new dark age, reversing decades of hard-won gains.
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