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Dear World

I wrote everything I could about the war back in 2014-16. It was poetry.

The Sum of All Fears

What does life look like when you I can hear bombs in the vicinity or when your cities are full of rubble of buildings that were once home?

Our Bodies, their Battlefields

In many conflict-torn African countries, sexual violence against women is being used as a weapon of war

Transforming the United Nations System

The United Nations has not been able to fulfil its mandate of maintaining international peace and security

In Our Time

The modern world is moving away from an era of relative stability toward one characterised by rising conflict

Rule of Two Walls

A photojournalist shares glimpses from ground zero from war-torn Ukraine

Enemy at the gates

A string of new technologies is promising to change the very character of war and is poised to take the nature of conflicts into uncharted waters

Bread & Roses

As the Taliban moves to ban women from becoming doctors, nurses or midwives in a bid to remove them from public spaces, Afghan women wonder how they will survive at all

Brave New War

The post-Cold War liberal order is fading away. A new 21st century order should factor in the interests and aspirations of players of today

My War gone By, I Miss It So Mach

Ultimately, gestures of defiance fuel our memory of the anti-colonial resistance

A Tale of Two Cities

The call of Eretz Israel, the biblical 'promised land', is one that both the secularists and the religious Zionists of Israel have heeded, at the cost of the people of that land

Shaping the Emerging World

Civilisational states will safeguard a multipolar world

Executive Orders

Right-wing ideologies are gaining ground in many countries across the world

Voices of Dissent

Two persistent dissenters and the deeper sources of their dissent

Under a Wartime Sky

Ramy Al-Ashen is an award winning Palestinian-SyrianGerman poet journalist and cultural figure based in Berlin, Germany.

How Democracies Die

How do we make sense of this new equation between war, death and democracy?

Soft Ruins

'Soft Ruins' is a chapter within the long-term ongoing project \"When Spring Never Comes\", an expansive exploration of memory, identity and displacement in the aftermath of exile within contemporary global politics. It reflects on how the journey as an asylum seeker in Europe mirrors the instability and threats of life under dictatorship, amidst rising right-wing movements and shifting power dynamics, where both certainty and identity are redefined

Building Beyond Homes: Provident Housing's Transformative Approach

Provident Housing leads in crafting thoughtfully designed homes that cater to modern homebuyers' evolving needs. With a focus on timely delivery, sustainability, and innovative, customer-centric solutions, the company sets new benchmarks. In this exclusive interview, Mallanna Sasalu, CEO of Provident Housing, shares insights into the company's strategies, upcoming projects, and vision for India's housing future.

Syria Speaks

A Syrian graffiti artist-activist's tale of living through bombings, gunshots and displacement

The Burdened

Yemen, once a beautiful land identified with the Queen of Sheba, is now one of the worst ongoing humanitarian disasters of modern times

Sculpting In Time

Documentaries such as Intercepted and Songs of Slow Burning Earth grapple with the Russian occupation beyond displays of desolation

The Story Won't Die

Is Israel's triumphalism over its land grab in Syria realistic? The hard reality is-Israel now has Al-Qaeda as a next-door neighbour

Against the Loveless World

In times of war, love exists as a profound act of defiance

Soul of My Soul

What does it mean to continue to create art during a genocide?

in Dancing the Glory of Monsters

By humanising the stories of those affected by war, poverty and displacement, Buuma hopes to foster empathy and inspire action

All the President's Men

Co-author of All The President's Men and one of the two Washington Post journalists (the other was Carl Berntstein) who broke the Watergate scandal that brought down the President Richard Nixon administration in the United States in 1974, Bob Woodward's recent book War was on top of The New York Times Bestseller list, even above John Grisham.

Last Witnesses

There will be moments when the light will be cut off, but writing and the dissemination of what is written need to continue

A land of Permanent Goodbyes

\"Because what survivor hasn't had her struggle made spectacle? Don't talk about the motherland unless you know that being from Africa means waking up an afterthought in this country.

Exhausted on the Cross

\"As in Gaza, where every corpse drags a hand from the rubble to beckon to God, everything there points to awar that is over and done with.\"

My Memory is Full of ghosts

The Syrian war is a testament to the people's resilience in the face of extraordinary challenges, underscoring a failure of global responsibility