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Reporters Without Borders: 2020 World Press Freedom Index

This year's World Press Freedom Index demonstrates the great personal risk journalists are exposed to in many countries around the world. Added to the expected dangers of reporting from dictatorships and increasingly brazen authoritarian regimes, countries with democratically elected presidents are also presenting increasing problems.

RemoteIftar.com: Preserving community in Ramadan

“When Ramadan enters, the gates of Paradise are opened, the gates of Hellfire are closed and the devils are chained.” (Al-Bukhari)

COVID-19 hits India's poor

The EU should end its acquiescence to Sisi’s policies

The recent re-emergence of public protest should remind the European Union that Abdul Fattah al-Sisi's policies do not provide a basis for long-term stability. It is high time that Europe pressed for a course correction and called out repression.

Forty days of revolution in Iraq

"Iran Nuclear Power – War and Peace" (2009)

Haunted by a suffocating society

Yousef Al-Mohaimeed's "Where Pigeons Don't Fly" begins with the melancholic self-imposed exile of a young Saudi man in a small UK town. Originally published in 2009 in Arabic, the novel became a bestseller and was translated to English by Robin Moger last year. While Al-Mohaimeed's short stories and novels are mostly set in Saudi Arabia, have garnered acclaim and prizes, and been translated into several languages, this controversial author's work has had to be published outside the kingdom due to censorship. By Nahrain Al-Mousawi

"Modernity Is Impossible within This Sectarian State"

As the leader of the Druze community and head of the Progessive Socialist Party, Walid Jumblatt has a decisive influence on Lebanon's complicated sectarian political system. With Naomi Conrad, Jumblatt talks about his country's ails

"Racism, like a plastic bottle in the sea…"

In his book, "Unter Weißen" (Among Whites) just published in Germany, journalist Mohamed Amjahid examines the stereotype of the "lust-driven, primitive and dangerous 'Oriental'". He holds up a mirror to the white majority in society, exposing the racist nature of myths of "otherness" and showing what it means to live among whites as a non-white person. By Ozan Keskinkilic

Senegalʹs "talibes" – begging for Islam