Pakistan disputes having business ties with Israel.
The Pakistani government disputed having any political or commercial ties with Israel after a Jewish…
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Imran Khan lobbies for Taliban recognition and requests that the world do so before requesting human rights for them.
Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan, lobbied for the Taliban’s acknowledgment and urged…
Covid-19 has imperilled the hammams of north Africa and the Levant
Y ENI HAMMAM in Antakya, Turkey’s southernmost city, is hard to find. Would-be bathers must…
Time is running out for Ivanka Trump – and fast
In the nearly six years since Donald Trump started his first campaign for the presidency,…
In our teens, we dreamed of making peace in the Middle East. Then my friend was shot
On 11 May 2021, I was sitting with a small group in a cafe in…
CAIR urges US gov’t to probe group accused of ‘spying’ on Muslims
Council on American-Islamic Relations says ‘anti-Muslim group’ was spying ‘in service of the state of…
Follow the money: How to bring IS extremists to justice
Who profited from the rise of the extremist group known as the “Islamic State” (IS)…
Once Europe’s liberal hope, Macron is now prey to France’s toxic populism
Show caption Emmanuel Macron has found himself impossibly squeezed. Photograph: Eliot Blondet/Sipa/Rex/Shutterstock Opinion Once Europe’s…
From Beijing with love
The autocrat, the artist and the struggle for freedom and justice in China and beyond….
Railway lines once connected the Middle East
S HE LEFT her husband digging for pottery in Syria’s northern desert, handed her passport…