Middle East

  • Handala, a character originally drawn by Naji Al-Ali, painted onto the West Bank barrier

    A Child in Palestine – review

    A Child in Palestine is a powerful tribute to the enduring legacy of Naji al-Ali, writes Jeanine Hourani

  • Liberation by the masses

    Revolutionary pan-Africanist Walter Rodney understood Palestinian liberation would be driven by the people writes Chinedu Chukwudinma

  • A group of politicians, diplomats and military officials standing in a row for a photograph for US President Joe Biden's visit to Israel's Department of Defence

    The Iron Dome is global – and so is the resistance

    In her powerful speech at ‘Still We Rise’, Naomi Klein argues that global political classes are united behind a shared supremacist vision in their defence of Israel’s crimes

  • An illustration of a red anemone coronaria on a black background. The centre of the anemone coronaria is filled with Arabic writing, a poem.

    For Palestine, bring the Hague home!

    The genocide in Gaza demands we fight for Palestine, by targeting circuits of power elsewhere. Toufic Haddad writes from Jerusalem

  • The front pages of three national newspapers. Each shows images of people covered in blood. One headline says: 'bloodbath at Kabul airport'.

    Islamophobia and spectacles of Muslim death

    Bad-faith policing of anti-semitism has led to rampant Islamophobia. In the global north, we have become conditioned to watching Muslims die, argues Maura Finkelstein

  • Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embraces Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New Delhi

    Hostile Homelands – review

    Muhammad Nadeem reviews Hostile Homelands by Azad Essa on the deepening ties between India and Israel

  • On a black background, there are three poppies. Each poppy has a centre of Arabic writing.

    Palestine in poetry and prose

    Palestinian literature has long provided space for resistance, healing, and growth, write Margarita Isabel Asensio Pastor and Eman Mhanna