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Revealed: Why there is an abandoned Ottoman tomb in remote India

Abdulmecid II, the last caliph, dreamt of resurrecting the caliphate abolished by Turkey

'The last stop of Europe': In a remote Greek port, live like a pasha in an Ottoman palace How did the Ottoman caliphate come to an end?

Starmer's fingerprints - not just the Tories' - are all over Britain's race riots

Why blaming the Israel lobby for western Middle East policies is misguided

How Netanyahu's Washington visit paved the way for regional war

UK Elections 2024

How Gaza sparked a new movement for justice in the UK

Rishi Sunak, his family, and India's far right

Is Israel going the way of the Crusaders?

Israel's war on Gaza

The message of Israel’s torture chambers is directed at all of us, not just Palestinians

Israel's war on Gaza

Francesca Albanese: 'International law is on a knife's edge' over Gaza inaction

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I survived Aleppo siege, but in Turkey, death still chases me

Terrorism: A history of violence

An Israeli Pandora's Box

The 40-year-old Israeli document that forms the backbone of an apartheid state

No matter who wins the US election, the door stays shut to Palestinians

Steve Bannon is preparing Trump for a holy war. No, really

From Obama to Trump: The lessons, the challenges

Algeria's independence: The forgotten protests that forged a nation

How a UN health agency became an apologist for Assad atrocities

Donald the Great? Alexander, the Middle East, and President Trump

Me or chaos: Why the West needs terrorism

The rights to the city or the neoliberal Tehran municipality

Saracens and Turks: The West's troubled relation with Islam

The Muslim Brotherhood: Time for renewal

Surrender or die: Syria's sieges are the difference-makers in the conflict

Tunisia Politics

Jailed, tortured and forced into exile: In Tunisia, now we have our moment of truth