Not Just A Dream: The story of Helem, the Arab World’s First LGBTQ Rights Organisation
From the perspective of the western media, gay rights activism in the Arab world is virtually non-existent. It’s difficult to fly the rainbow flag when homosexual acts are criminalized in all but three of the 22 countries of the Arab world
Women of Allah: An Interview With Exiled Artist Shirin Neshat
The figures in Women of Allah, Shirin Neshat’s collection of early photographs, are at once modest, seductive and actively aggressive. Veiled Iranian women have their exposed flesh overlaid with the elaborate script of Farsi feminist poetry, their eyes aligned inches from the barrel of a gun, or
Madre, Libre!: Spain’s Battle Over Abortion
Tens of thousands of protesters are lining the streets of Spain, and the word retroceso is on their lips. Almost forty years on from the death of Franco, the Justice Minister Alberto Ruis-Gallardón is again striking the tone of a dictator, as he declares in the face of overwhelming public oppositio
Profiteering Prophets: The Abuse of Power Among India’s Spiritual Elite
It is a quarter-past six on a muggy April morning in the already frenetic Chawri Bazaar of Old Delhi. The erstwhile centre of Mughal power in India, the fortified city remains home to a predominantly Muslim community to this day. As day breaks, a young woman in a tiny room in an alley off the [&hell
The ISIS Bonfire Launch video
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Notes from the Ground: Dispatch #3, Quarter Horse
"Too much choice is bad for a comrade"
The Bloomsbury Set in Oxford
'Virginia Woolf and friends donned beards and costumes to disguise themselves as Abyssinian princes in order to dupe the admiral and gain access to the pride of the British naval fleet, HMS Dreadnought'
‘You can see it in my files. It’s written in my DNA’ : Young care leavers and The Big House Theatre Company
Two thirds of 'looked after' children have at least one physical health complaint, and no less than half have a mental health disorder. They are also 4 times more likely to commit suicide. One of the most vulnerable sectors of society, children in care are being staggeringly let down.