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Reform of the Moroccan family code
A struggle over Quranic principles
Feminists in Morocco are eagerly awaiting a planned reform of the family code. Experts and the public have been consulted, but the king and the commission have yet to reveal the proposed amendments.
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Europe and Gaza
The EU must regain its moral responsibility
Human rights are enshrined in the EU’s DNA, but in Gaza, the EU is complicit in blatant violations. Can the Union return to its moral principles and stop Israel and its own member states from trampling on international law?
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+972 editor-in-chief Ghousoon Bisharat
"Israeli media outlets have been recruited into the war effort"
Since the Hamas attacks on 7 October, the Israeli-Palestinian platform +972 Magazine has published a range of impactful investigations. Its Palestinian editor-in-chief Ghousoon Bisharat discusses the challenges independent journalism faces in Israel and Palestine.
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Short stories by Moussa Abadi
Multi-religious life in the Jewish Quarter of Damascus
Syrian author Moussa Abadi depicts peaceful coexistence in the Jewish Quarter of 1920s Damascus in ‘The Queen and the Calligrapher’. The characters may be quirky and the stories bizarre, but they show us that the Damascus of yesterday could be a model for our own time.
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