Deep dive

Bosnia's fate was sealed not by war alone, but by the architecture of an unequal peace.

As Gaza burned, Saudi Arabia kept the oil flowing, the arms investments growing, and its strategic alliance with Israel deepening — abandoning Palestinians to violence and impunity.

The Kurdish question resurfaces as Erdoğan juggles alliances abroad and repression at home, blurring the lines between foreign policy and domestic authoritarianism.

While the world debates bombs and sanctions, Iran is quietly running out of water—its land cracked, lakes vanished, and millions forced into climate migration.

How does one go on when their world has been erased? Through art, survivors navigate the weight of absence, transforming grief into testimony, horror into a haunting presence.

Anti-dam protests once halted the Yusufeli Dam in Turkey, yet, national capital co-opted these efforts into tools of displacement and control. The struggle, however, persists in new forms.

With €1,500 and a one-way ticket Cyprus' deportation machine, with EU backing, is pressuring Syrian refugees into ‘voluntary’ returns despite risks and legal protections.

The PIF’s rapid expansion cements Saudi Arabia’s global position but exposes human rights abuses, financial secrecy, and its role in whitewashing authoritarian rule through sports, AI, and mega-projects.

how can we arrive at a condition in which a struggle for a democratic, inclusive and open Syrian polity and society comes to presuppose and to prescribe a struggle against Israel’s genocidal ethno-nationalism and vice versa.

One year after the 7th of October, four anomalies and paradoxes of our daily media experience appear evident, linking the live-streamed Israeli genocide in Palestine with the brutal attacks on Lebanon.

The real stories of the local Sudanese medical teams who remained in El Fasher to save lives under fire while International aid agencies largely withdrew.

The city’s cultural policies commodify artistic expression and manipulate diversity, perpetuating power imbalances and constrains genuine cultural innovation.

It is tempting to call what is happening in Bangladesh a revolution. There is often a fine line between a revolution and a counter-revolution. Bangladesh is hanging on that tightrope today.

Afforestation has been a pillar of Israel’s settler colonization project, to create a national identity on Palestinian lands.

It is up to us to create our own mythology, identify with our heroines, and celebrate our saints. Qandisha's story is shaped by how we choose to portray her.

Recent violent attacks against Syrian refugees in Turkey reveal a deep discontent with the country’s politics. A Turkish journalist explains why.

There is a mutually reinforcing link between racist, colonial, and fascist tendencies at the core of much of Western environmentalism.

The total failure of Western media covering Gaza is another symptom of the crisis of so-called Western democracies, with dire consequences for all of us.

Stripping her of citizenship and making her stateless violated her rights as a child and made her a victim of both ISIS and the UK.

What are the ethical implications when artificial intelligence plays a role in documenting human experiences?

The development and training of AI systems depend on hundreds of millions of data workers. Many of them are situated or displaced from the Global majority, and are generally kept in the dark on how the data they produce will be used.

On Yemen’s Socotra island, poverty and political disruption hinder efforts to give its prized dragon’s blood tree a future.

The Gospel, the latest AI gadget deployed by the IDF in Gaza, paves the way to a new mode of warfare that can further encourage the dehumanization of human beings behind a narrative of technological progress, efficiency, and accuracy.

Our ancestors, who were often perceived as “ignorant” or “uncivilized” by colonists and western powers remain a model example of living in harmony with nature.

These forests are not just repositories of biodiversity; they are cultural treasures, economic lifelines, and ecological cornerstones

Aijaz Ahmad’s story may not be known to many outside a few selective international leftist circles, but it is one of exile, colonialism, and resistance that resonates in many parts of the Global South today.

A response to the call of physicians Ghassan Abu Sitta and Rupa Marya to rehumanize Palestinians by reimagining healing, life, and liberation of both bodies and minds.

The increasing repression of Palestinian solidarity since 7 October in Germany is not new. It is part of a historical erasure, diminishing and eradicating the collective existence and identity of Palestinians

Mainstream Western politics and media's approach to the war on Gaza raises three important puzzles. Exploring them suggests that Western and Middle Eastern governments are unwilling to address the root causes of the Palestine/Israel question.

Some aspects of societal and institutional adaptation have emerged in Syria one year after the 6th of February 2023 earthquake. Lessons were learned from the natural disaster, and it contributed enhancing the resilience of local Syrian communities to natural risks in a world of climate change that signals more risks.