Extremely disturbing reports came again from Iran in recent days. Scattered and fragmented, but more poignant for that very reason. Images of streets littered ...

Director Gabriel Mascaro got the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize in 2025 at the Berlin Film Festival for this movie. About a 75 ...

Given the avowed pacifism of the supposedly liberal modern world order, reconciliations have been conspicuously rare in ...

Nations rarely unravel through a single dramatic act. They erode when the foundations of trust, aspiration, and private ...

The European Commission’s 2026 meta-study on energy connectivity across the Eastern Partnership, the South Caucasus, Turkey, ...

The 20th century was a period of political fragmentation between monarchies and republics in the Middle East. The success of ...

There is a familiar liberal story about the military as a national instrument that occasionally interrupts private life. The ...

Hosseini’s A Sheikh (or Elder) on Mars (2025), an further example of Egyptian sci-fi’s love affair with Mars. The novel ...

When I first read The Museum of Innocence, it didn’t feel like a love story so much as a treasure hunt. For the antique lover that I am, these objects felt ...

I woke up today with the word “effortless” playing in my mind. I love effortless conversations where you’re allowed to be ...

The tile shown below comes from official British counter-terrorism information materials. It is part of the official GOV.UK guidance on how extremism and ...

The release of the latest batch of the Epstein files has sparked a firestorm of online fury on social media, with US Attorney General Pam Bondi's recent ...