Fighting child marriage in Sudan
Asha el-Karib, a Sudanese feminist and activist, doesn’t think ten-year-old girls should marry, or that all women be required to...
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Michael Petrou
Senior writer Michael Petrou has covered conflict across the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia. He is the author of ’Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War’, which was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award, and ’Is This Your First War? Travels Through the Post-9/11 Islamic World’, which won it. He has a DPhil from the University of Oxford.
Charles Taylor and the tarnished pursuit of justice
When old Nazi collaborators are found here, our government responds. Not so when an alleged African war criminal is discovered
London mayoral election: Boris vs. Ken, Round II
If it comes down to personality, Boris Johnson has Ken Livingstone beat
REVIEW: Thinking the Twentieth Century
Book by Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder
"We insist on being optimistic": Ahdaf Soueif on the Egyptian Revolution
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In conversation: Ahdaf Soueif
In her new book the novelist chronicles 18 days last January, when Egyptians were the people they wanted to be
Günter Grass’s poem opens old wounds
In "What Must be Said," the German intellectual says Israel poses a threat to world peace
"Every time I answered ’Kurdish,’ they beat me ..."
The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center today released a report on the treatment of Kurdish activists in Iran. The following is...
Mohamed Merah: a failure in life and death
A Jihadist murderer might have hoped to spark wider terror. But a nation pulled through.
Bradford debases itself
George Galloway, Iran lackey , friend of dictators , cat impersonator , is back in Westminster. This is the man, incidentally, to...