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Citizen Vigilante

By exploiting fears of sexual violence, Citizen Vigilante legitimises far-right fantasies of racial violence by depicting it as justice, writes Amina Shareef.

riz

Riz Ahmed's experience with British intelligence raises troubling questions about the place of Muslim artists in the West, writes Sajidah Ali.

Mo Salah

For many Arabs, football is never separate from politics. The 2026 World Cup reinforced beliefs about injustice, power and Palestine, writes Bassam Abun-Nadi.

Palestinian christians

Global silence over Israel's deportation of priest Louis Salman signals the uncertain future of Palestinian Christians under occupation, writes Xavier Abu Eid.

Narrated
Renad Atallah

Plestia Alaqad highlights the struggles and hope that Gaza’s Instagram star Chef Renad carries with her since her displacement to the Netherlands.

Youssef M. stood in front of a patterned wall. They have dark curly hair and are wearing glasses and a t-shirt with a poem in arabic

A Czech activist has been held in pre-trial detention for over 2 months on allegations of damaging Israeli Elbit arms factory. Where are their rights?

NL

Former Dutch ambassador Nikolaos van Dam recounts how political pressure and bias shaped Western policy on Israel's occupation of Palestine.

Gaza

After more than two years of displacement, horror and loss from Israel's genocide, Huda Skaik explains why the Nakba never ended for Palestinians in Gaza.

Unfiltered
eU pALESTINE

All 27 member states say Israel's settlements are illegal, yet ministers left Brussels empty-handed following the foreign affairs council, writes Lema Nazeeh.

christians

Netanyahu claims that Christian villages want annexation, but the outrage from these communities exposes Israel's real intentions, writes Tracy Chamoun.

Trump vance rubio

Behind the US-Israel-Lebanon deal lies a broader effort to undermine the US-Iran agreement and restore Washington's regional leverage, writes Mouin Rabbani.

LEBANON-AVAITION-AIRPORT

The airport's reopening demonstrates a shift in infrastructure as oil-linked industrial ambition to military asset, writes Estella Carpi.

Opinion Video
JD Vance stands behind Donald Trump, who is looking at the World Cup trophy, in the Oval Office. Gianni Infantino stands next to the trophy

As the United States hosts the FIFA Club World Cup, critics are drawing comparisons with the scrutiny faced by Qatar during the 2022 World Cup.

The tragedy of the Nakba never ended, it only got worse

To fossilise the Nakba is to ignore Zionism's continued settler colonial drive to erase Palestinians. Unless we unite, Ghada Karmi argues, more tragedy awaits.

To reverse UK decline, double down on multiculturalism

Farage’s project, far more than any other political force in Britain, is proving itself the beneficiary of the country’s mounting array of crises.

Between war and regime oppression, Iranians trapped by trauma cycle

The US-Israel war escalated an already devastating mental health crisis for Iranians following decades of living under a brutal regime, says Tara Kangarlou.

Graphic Truth
For Whom the Casus Belli Tolls
Operation Epic Recursion
The World Cup trophy is depicted a a drone flying in a blue sky
The Egyptian flag is made up of red and yellow cards