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COVID-19 hits India's poor

Ramadan 2020: How to practice faith in times of COVID-19

Egypt's war on the free press

From veils to turbans to face masks: Covering up in Africa

Will the Dutch award compensation to collateral damage victims of air strikes targeting IS?

Thousands facing hunger and homelessness in Lebanon

From terror to triumph: a young Rohingya woman's journey to the impossible

Inspired by the heroic stories of Malala and Helen Keller, Formin Akter, a young Rohingya woman who fled Rakhine State with her family in 2017, kept her dream of university alive. Now a freshman at the Asian University for Women in southern Bangladesh, she hopes to be an inspiration to others.

Egypt's silent killer: Bad food

Zero tolerance: Islamist intolerance on the rise in Bangladesh

Shady Lewis Botros: "What's it like to be a Christian in Egypt?"

Shady Lewis Botros' recently published novel – "Ways of the Lord" – is a rare example of an Egyptian work of fiction whose primary characters are Christian. Beyond entrenched discrimination, the Arabic-language novel explores what the author says is the victimisation of Egypt's Christians by a "politically engineered harmony" between the state and their own church, seeking to control their lives.