The court-ordered closure of Mada Masr, after years of legal and security harassment, and the continued detention of six ...

Mason L. Wong is an editorial fellow at New Lines Magazine. He comes to us via the Public Humanities Doctoral Fellowship at ...

A Mandarin-language ad targeting a Republican senator is under fire for being racist and xenophobic. The ad raises questions ...

Opposition leaders have said they won’t ally with an Arab party, though polls show this is their only sure path to victory ...

Farmers’ livelihoods were taken away to build military bases and housing for regime supporters. The new government now seeks to redevelop these areas without redress ...

The flocks of the Italian capital are helping to protect its remaining natural parks, even as pressures on the ancient practice grow Federica RossiFederica Rossi is an award-winning Italian freelance ...

When the Assad regime expropriated land outside Damascus from local farmers, it became part of a chemical weapons facility.

Laique was built to show that citizenship could outrank confession, but a policy shift is being seen as a sign of the country ...

Churches that have not shared communion since the fifth century are now worshipping together, navigating doctrine, culture ...

On Oct. 11, the first day of Navratri, a nine-day festival among the most important in the Hindu calendar, 19-year-old Alexandros Paporakis drove into the parking lot of the Sri Venkateswara Swami ...

Chris OsieckChris Osieck is a Dutch-Indonesian writer, open-source researcher and war crimes investigator ...