The opening sequence, inexplicably, has a wrestling match with two contests enjoying their carnage, only for us to find a whistleblower in the crowd being threatened by two official-looking goons. The ...

The Church of England is undergoing a disheartening descent into spiritual darkness. Once an institution embodying truth, ...

The remarkable thing is that, in this story, the crocodile is actually the most consistent participant. He does not pretend ...

Most people know Qatar only because this small Gulf state hosted the 2022 World Cup, a tournament intended primarily to ...

Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary elections produced a result that was analysed carefully in neighbouring Azerbaijan. The ruling ...

Lindsey Graham is dead. 71 years old. A brief, sudden illness, his office reports. Shortly before that, he had been in Kyiv.

The global discussions around the controversial movie Citizen Vigilante are both boring and alarming. Because if people don’t ...

The November Men' (1993) purports to be about a director making a docudrama about a plot to kill the president. The ...

To embrace the arts is to open one’s mind to the possibility that the impossible is within reach. At Beirut's historic Le Monnot theatre, you quickly feel less in a physical space and more in an ...

It is the summer of 1940. Air raid sirens wail over London as the Luftwaffe drops bombs onto the burning streets. Amidst the tremors, the British people hear a voice on the radio: crackling, resolute, ...

The international refugee system is failing, and the people who need it most are the first to feel it. It was designed for a world that no longer exists, and never redesigned for the one that took its ...

For decades, the phrase “from the Nile to the Euphrates” has occupied a peculiar place in Middle Eastern political imagination, drifting between symbolism, fear and accusation depending on who is ...