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Ethiopia's Tigray: 350,000 people facing famine

Online education is the only hope for Afghan schoolgirl

Denied access to school due to the Taliban's failure to reopen secondary schools for girls, one Afghan teenager has taken to the Internet to try to exercise her basic right to an education. But her self-driven online learning mission has not been easy.

Yemen's forests are the next casualty of war

Moroccan elections will be about maths, not change

The country's national election on 8 September will likely bring new government. But neither experts nor locals expect it to bring long-promised change, writes Cathrin Schaer

Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. envoy behind the Taliban's return

If one individual could bring peace to Afghanistan, U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad touted himself as the man for the job. In the end, however, the seasoned diplomat has overseen the demise of the republic he so painstakingly assembled.

"We want our stories to travel"

On 14 October 2021, streaming giant Netflix expanded its service to include films either produced by Palestinians or with a Palestinian theme. "Palestinian Stories" comprises 32 award-winning movies available to viewers all round the world

Al-Azhar's Sheikh Mohammed al-Tayyeb responds to Macron

“Muslims around the world, rulers and ruled, reject terrorism that acts in the name of religion, and affirm the innocence of Islam and its Prophet from terrorism.”

Stranger than fiction

In the blanket homage to the late Israeli politician Shimon Peres there are significant omissions. One should not speak ill of the dead. But nevertheless, the gushing praise demands further clarification. A critical appraisal by Stefan Buchen

Huge appetite for democracy among Arab citizens

The results of the largest opinion poll of its kind in the Arab world have been released by The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) with almost 30 thousand respondents across 13 Arab countries and more than 900 researchers taking part.