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Afghanistan between defiance and despair

What hides in the woods

Satellite images of Duhu, Gubla or Gulak reveal little. A road flanked by scattered settlements runs through sparse terrain. Somewhat further away, the Sambisa forest. North-eastern Nigeria – home to the Islamist terrorist organisation Boko Haram, described by Wolfgang Bauer in his shocking and poignant reportage ″Stolen Girls″

France24: "When people fell off planes, humanity fell to the ground"

Ban on Afghan girls singing dropped after activist outrage

Afghanistan's government distanced itself from a recent plan to ban girls from singing in public after women's rights activists slammed education officials for promoting a "Taliban-like" policy. By Nasim Saber

Islamic Spain and the music of the "qiyan"

Confessions of a Muslim woman

In her debut novel, Fatima Daas makes use of traditional narrative forms reminiscent of Koranic suras. The piercing, insistent rhythm of her writing style addresses topical issues such as same-sex love, gender and questions concerning her identity as a French woman with Algerian heritage. Volker Kaminski read the book

Taliban seize power in Afghanistan: "The war is over"

Winning hearts and minds in Kabul?

Foreign Affairs: Is the two-state solution still viable?

Foreign Affairs asks those with specialist expertise relevant to the question at hand, as well as leading generalists in the field, for their take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the viability of the two-state solution.

Iran’s disappearing wetlands