On a warm evening in June 2013, a Turkish activist named Bulent Muftuouglu was on his way to a concert and protest in Istanbul’s Gezi Park, site of what would become a…
The spectre of Gamal Abdel Nasser is haunting Egypt’s upcoming presidential election. The election has set up a contest between two candidates who both, in different ways, claim Nasser’s legacy.…
In the early hours of August 30, five young fishermen left the southern Gaza Strip in a small boat, joining other boats seeking sardines. Two of them were teenagers.…
In the boom times over the past few years, sections of Gaza’s southern borderline resembled a busy shipping terminal, with trucks hauling loads of smuggled cargo from the vast network…
