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Syria: Banksy’s crude politics

Banksy’s video satirizing the Syrian civil war, entitled “Rebel Rocket Attack,” left Syrians and keen watchers of the conflict confused and disappointed. The video, released on October 6, has since been viewed by over fiv...

by Nour Al-Ali

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Alien in Lebanon: Why I Can Never Call My Country Home

A month ago, I was having dinner with my friends. I don’t know how in so many years of friendship we still manage to always stumble upon topics that we have never discussed before. On that night one of my friends was caught o...

by Lama Miri

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Syria: The Girls of Al-Tall Weave Ribbons and Freedom

The town of Al-Tall, in the countryside of Damascus, the Syrian capital, is famous for its highly educated inhabitants and its active women groups, despite the traditional nature of the community. In that context, we highlight ...

by Syria Untold

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How Female Genital Cutting is Ending

Female genital cutting (FGC) is a harmful practice involving the forcible removal of a girl’s genitals. In Africa alone, 30 million girls are at risk of being cut over the next decade, and up to 125 million women and girls ...

by Julia Lalla-Maharajh

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Managing the Hajj: Pilgrimage and the Politics of Race and Class

On Monday I flew from London Heathrow to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, a journey I have made countless times. This time around, however, the atmosphere was different. I had chosen to fly during the busiest time of the year in Saudi Ara...

by Miriam Puttick

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WATCH: Understanding the Modern Refugee – An Impossible Task?

How does it feel to be a refugee? For most of the “Western” world, that’s always going to be an unanswerable question. As unstable as the European and American economies and governments may get, the chances of war breakin...

by Conor Sullivan

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Water, Water Everywhere

Last May, when Ethiopia began diverting the course of the Blue Nile as part of a project aimed at building the biggest hydroelectric dam in Africa, Egypt’s reaction was fierce. Following the June 1st report of the trilateral...

by Anna Lazzarin

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Getting That Sinking Feeling: Kurdish Culture and the Demise of Hasankeyf

Located 73 miles to the south west of Lake Van in Eastern Turkey, Hasankeyf is a photogenic village consisting of farmers and traders catering to a predominantly tourist crowd on the southern banks of the Tigris River. Turning ...

by Lewis Green

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All Quiet on the Syrian Front: But Who are the Winners and Losers?

The rhetoric has been scaled-back. Potentially embarrassing Congressional votes have been avoided. Multinational conflict has (for now) become an unlikely possibility. In fact, since the chemical arms agreement with Syria was s...

by Miro Ralston

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Syria: Banksy’s crude politics

Alien in Lebanon: Why I Can Never Call My Country Home

Syria: The Girls of Al-Tall Weave Ribbons and Freedom

How Female Genital Cutting is Ending

Managing the Hajj: Pilgrimage and the Politics of Race and Class

WATCH: Understanding the Modern Refugee – An Impossible Task?

Water, Water Everywhere

Getting That Sinking Feeling: Kurdish Culture and the Demise of Hasankeyf

All Quiet on the Syrian Front: But Who are the Winners and Losers?

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