The Italians, the refugees and the fake wedding party - the innovative plot to help Syrians reach Sweden. Escaping Syria's conflict has provoked thousands to flee, and hundreds of thousands of refugees are seeking asylum in Europe. When a poet and journalist meet five Palestinians and Syrians...
Asia News Saudi Arabia's discriminatory male guardianship system continues to dominate the lives of women, despite government pledges to abolish it. According to Human Rights Watch, the system forbids women from obtaining a passport, marrying, traveling, driving, or accessing higher education without the approval of a...
Shatha Almutawa. Élise Franssen, a Belgian postdoctoral researcher, and Frédéric Bauden, a professor at the University of Liège, are creating an online database of paratextual elements in Arabic, Turkish, and Persian manuscripts in order to track the transmission of Middle Eastern books. By doing so they...
David Motadel. JULY 25, 1940, JUST AFTER THE FALL OF FRANCE and at the outset of the Battle of Britain, retired German diplomat Max von Oppenheim sent Berlin’s Foreign Office a seven-page memorandum. It was time, he argued, for a comprehensive strategy to mobilize the Islamic world against...