Articles & Analyses

Killing Democracy or Killing Mollah?

Prison authorities in Bangladesh have hurriedly carried out the execution of Abdul Qadir Mollah, an Assistant Secretary General of Jamaat-i-Islami…

13 years ago

Negotiating secularism, state and citizenship in Turkey

On Thursday 31 October four female MPs from Turkey's Justice and Development Party (JDP) entered the General Assembly chamber at…

13 years ago

The paradoxical Cairo junta

The military junta in Egypt, headed by army chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, seems to be thoroughly stupid as it is…

13 years ago

Mali’s fight with militants is far from over

Sitting in front of her house on a quiet street in Gao, Bintou Yatarra, 28, pokes a feathered bird in…

13 years ago

Will U.S. strike Syria without major ally Britain?

Analysts are divided over whether the United States will press ahead with a punitive strike against the Syrian government for…

13 years ago

A symbol of Palestinian prisoners’ suffering

With three prison guards on his bedside, 64-year-old Maysara Abu Hamdeya died of cancer shackled to an Israeli hospital bed…

13 years ago

World plans for a post-Assad Syria

For more than two years, the world has stood by as the violence in Syria has intensified. (more…)

13 years ago

Pakistan’s Pervez Musharraf: Risking it all?

Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's former president, is back home after more than four years in self-imposed exile. He is hoping to…

13 years ago

Erdogan is correct; Zionism is a crime against humanity

Israeli leaders have been infuriated by the fleeting remarks made by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the opening…

13 years ago

Burma’s Rohingya Muslims: We Want Peace

“We want peace,” were the Rohingya’s sentiments expressed to me again, as I recently revisited the Rakhine State in Myanmar/Burma,…

13 years ago