By Futura D'Aprile
It is now two years since the village of Hasankeyf in Turkish Kurdistan was submerged by the waters of the Ilisu dam. All that remains of the settlement that once stood along the banks of the Tigris...
by Jennifer Zacharia* – Boston Review
During the summer of 1998, my cousin Shireen’s alarm would wake us both at 6 a.m. every morning. She shared her room with me while I worked in Palestine during that time. When the...
By Camilla Ballerini
The organization "Open Society Foundations" in 2021 published a new report "A Passage to Justice - Selected Yemeni civil society views for transitional justice and long-term accountability in Yemen". The report is based on interviews with Yemeni...
June is the international Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. To start this yearly appointment, we have decided to narrate one of the activities of our partner, the humanitarian NGO INTERSOS. In Jordan, mission chief Barbara Foresti explains her team's...
By Ken Klippenstein - The Intercept_
Last month, as part of a regional tour, CIA Director William Burns quietly met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah, a port city in western Saudi Arabia. The unusual meeting,...
By Alice Pistolesi
Violence broke out even at the funeral of journalist Shereen Abu Akleh, killed on 11 May while following an Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.
At the funeral of the Al Jazeera reporter,...
By Shamil Shams, Shabnam von Hein – Deutsche Welle (DW)
The Taliban have further curbed women’s rights with their latest veil compulsion decree. Afghanistan’s civil society faces an uphill task to challenge the group without adequate support from the international...
By Camilla Ballerini
The Israeli movement "Machsom Watch" was born in 2001 from the willpower of 3 women who dedicated themselves to gathering Israeli women from all social classes, to give a voice to those who live in the Palestinian...
By Alice Pistolesi
While carving out a space as a mediator in the conflict in Ukraine, Turkey is continuing its military moves to create a 'security zone' in Iraq and Syria.
The offensive against the Kurds
The Turkish military offensive in Iraq,...
By Antonio Donini
Afghanistan is regularly portrayed as “the graveyard of empires”. The British, Soviets and now the US-led coalition have tried and failed to impose their rule and their ill-thought models of governance and development. On 15 August 2022...
