Nearly 42,000 Kuwaitis have been stripped of their nationality in just six months and in defiance of international law. Launched under the increasingly authoritarian rule of Kuwait’s new monarch, Emir Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the policy claims to target foreigners […]
'Stateless overnight': Authoritarian crackdown strips 42,000 Kuwaitis of nationality Read More »
Paris-based Begum TV provides school classes, health programmes and light-hearted entertainment to Afghan women stripped of all rights. Employing Afghan journalists exiled in France, the channel’s work is all the more precious now that one of Kabul’s last remaining media
From Paris, Begum TV offers Afghan women ‘window onto the world’ Read More »
Iran finds itself more isolated than ever after the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, which has upended the Middle East by dismantling the “Axis of Resistance” – an informal, Iran-led group that united Syria and armed groups like Hamas
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The destruction caused by the devastating 2019 fire that ripped through Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral triggered an avalanche of donations to help rebuild the monument. The surplus – which amounts to €140 million – will be used for a “Phase 3” of restoration beginning
Surplus donations allow 'Phase 3' restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2025 Read More »
The scale of the protest movement that erupted after the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini and the brutal repression of those demonstrations have left an indelible mark on Iranian society. More and more women are flouting the veil requirement when
