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Egyptian elites did not supporting the Nazis during World War II

Scholar Israel Gershoni shows in his new book how the middle classes were willing to accept a pro-British government because they saw it as the lesser of two evils, and something that would save them from the Germans

Egypt's millennials turn to Sufism

India-Pakistan rivalry: Kashmiris pay a high price

Jonathan Freedland: "If we want the killing to stop, we should say so"

Wolfgang Fischer′s 'Styx' wins Heiner Carow Prize at the Berlinale

Austrian director Wolfgang Fischer′s 'Styx', about a thirty-something female doctor from Germany who encounters a leaky trawler filled with refugees when on a solo yachting trip, has scooped the Heiner Carow Prize at the Berlinale

Laughing in the face of death

In his novel "Istanbul Istanbul", Burhan Sönmez describes the fate of four political prisoners, for whom telling stories in their shared cell becomes a passion. It enables them to retain a scrap of dignity in the face of torture and inhumanity. By Volker Kaminski

Allah's Disempowered Daughters

In 2008, the renowned Turkish author Nedim Gürsel was charged with insulting Islam in his novel The Daughters of Allah. He was later acquitted. The novel has now been translated into German. Stefan Weidner read the book

Frustration boils over in Iran

Report: Invisible refugee women in Germany

Yemeni Nobel Laureate Tawakkol Karman: Saudi "occupation"

Yemen Nobel laureate Tawakkol Karman has accused the Saudi-led coalition that backs President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi in the country's civil war of acting as occupiers