Photo Essays

Doctors Without Borders' (MSF) hospital for reconstructive surgery in Amman is the final hope for many of those injured in conflicts in the Middle East. Tania Kramer reports from Jordan

Antoin Sevruguin, the father of Iranian society photography, captured portraits of Iranian women in the early 20th century, from well-known ladies at the court to women from various tribes around the country.

A patchwork of aid groups and independent volunteers have assembled in Izmir, Turkey, to help refugees restart their lives. The port city is now home to 85,000 Syrian asylum-seekers. By Diego Cupolo

Blessed with a wealth of cultural treasures, the Iraqi capital Baghdad looks back on a unique history. Yet terror, war and state neglect have wrought ineradicable damage. Impressions by Ali al-Gharbawi

In Bangladesh around 4.5 million children are working under hazardous conditions. Some 1.7 million of them live and work in the capital, Dhaka. DW correspondent Mustafiz Mamun has captured their every day lives on film.

French officials have called for a buffer zone to be cleared between a road leading to the Eurotunnel and the ″Jungle″ refugee camp, causing residents to scramble to save their dwellings. By Diego Cupolo

The Algerian city of Constantine still bears traces left behind by the Romans, Ottomans and the French. It has long been a centre of religious and intellectual study. Despite this, the historical old city has fallen into decay. A visit to the Arabic Capital of Culture 2015. By Jakob Krais

One of the cradles of civilisation, with a centuries-old reputation for tolerance and multi-ethnicity, the Turkish town of Mardin is situated in an area that once belonged to Mesopotamia. Now the Kurdish conflict and the Syrian civil war just across the border are putting its tradition of openness to the test.

Between 1909 and 1912, photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii was commissioned to conduct a photographic survey of the Russian Empire by Tsar Nicholas II. Using a special camera he captured three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters. These were later overlaid and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true colour images. These photographs pre-date both the Russian Revolution and the First World War. Take a step back in time and see what life was like for Muslims more than a century ago with these photos made available by the Library of Congress, which purchased the original glass plates back in 1948.

Many long-established Arab rulers were toppled during the Arab Spring in 2011. But not all of them: the Sultan of Oman has been head of the Gulf state for forty years – and is as popular as ever. By Anne Allmeling