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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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Abdul Hakim Belhaj: Why I rejected bin Laden’s invitation to join al-Qaeda

Somali. Black. Muslim. Woman. Refugee. American: The making of Ilhan Omar

Manchester City, Abu Dhabi and the rise of English football's new order

Massacre in Mali: How the 'war on terror' fuels tribal violence in the Sahel

The new faces of Jewish-American resistance to Israel

The fraught and unforgettable: How Malcolm X's legacy lives on in America

Blaming the West is not enough: We too are responsible for this calamity

Facing disaster: The Muslim Rohingya of Myanmar

The Rohingya: Has the UN failed Myanmar's Muslims?

Separating children from parents: A sordid modern practice

Football: Second religion of the Middle East

Why I deserted the Syrian army

If this happened in Alabama there would be uproar. In Israel, it's the norm

No, Channel 4, Islam is not responsible for Islamic State

The 'Pipelineistan' conspiracy: The war in Syria has never been about gas

What the 1930s can teach us about Syria and our brutal world order