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Is Christianity perishing in the Middle East?

Christianity’s Holy Book, The Bible, is replete with the history, stories of the Jews, other people and places of the Middle East from early civilisation to the Romans. Among several Biblical stories are those of the birth of...
by Samson Faboye
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LGBTQ

Life as Arabia’s queer youth: Four LGBT Arabs break the silence

The world as we know it today is experiencing its peak when it comes to the rights of LGBTQ+ people. With improvements such as constitutional protection, better representation in the media, more coverage of hate crimes and prot...
by Danya Issam
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50Days4Gaza: Ali Abunimah speaks about resistence movements being labelled as “terrorism”

8 July 2015 marked the one year anniversary of the 2014 Gaza war. With there being very slow progress on reconstuction in the Gaza Strip since the war ended, over 100,000 Palestinians remain homeless and not one house has been ...
by Priyanka Mogul
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Politics

With us or against us: Tory scaremongering has genocidal overtones

The newly independent Tory government has provided further indication of its brazen radicalism. Following the Queen’s Speech in May, during which plans were announced for a new “counter-extremism bill” that will brin...
by Gustav Isherwood
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50Days4Gaza Feature: IPF honours those affected by the 2014 Gaza war

On 8 July 2014, Israel launched Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip – a military operation to put a halt to rocket fire from Hamas. The war continued for 50 days and claimed the lives of 2,251 Palestinians – most of...
by Priyanka Mogul
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Africa

Timbuktu and the Northern Mali conflict

It not entirely an accident that Timbuktu is a colloquialism for any faraway place. The intricately complex conflict in Northern Mali is one that seems even more remote from our comprehension than other modern armed conflicts. ...
by Will Perry Evans
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Human Rights
 

Made In Prison: Copenhagen and the paris Attacks

When news trickled through about Saturday’s attacks in Copenhagen, it was difficult to avoid a sense of déjà vu. Another Islamic extremist attacks another cartoonist. Then he targets Jews. Was this another Charlie Hebdo? A...
by Charlie de Rivaz
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Africa

Boko Haram: A challenge for Africa

Sunni Jihadi group Boko Haram, originally from Nigeria, has carried out their first fatal attack in Chad, according to locals and army spokespeople.
by Bauke Danielle Schram
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Think Muslims should apologise for acts of terrorism? This will change your mind

In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shooting last month, there was a particularly worrying phenomenon building momentum in the West – the phenomenon that called for Muslims around the world to apologise for the terrorist att...
by Priyanka Mogul
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