Mostar: A View From The Bridge
Bosnia & Herzegovina has been brought back into the international spotlight after a decade of political and socio-economic inertia. The powder keg of frustration over the unemployment rates of around 43% (63% for youth unemployment, with two in three young people without a job) and political sta
ISIS Lit: Saudade
One summer before the end of the world, Clement’s mother packed up her bags and took him away from the house where he had grown up.
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"