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The religious façade is merely another element of IS propaganda, the mobilising ideology that provides a veneer of legitimacy for its existence

Nafeez Ahmed

Most people are repelled by the increasingly brutal behaviour of IS - but few have tried to understand their narrative

Moazzam Begg

Canada's '5-Eyes' surveillance alliance along with the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand has taken huge steps to enhance domestic policing and intelligence powers

Steven Zhou

Growing up in a refugee camp among many children whose fathers weren’t around to care for them made me aware that I had my father

Ghada Ageel

Life is too good here and the people are too brainwashed. The left is clinically dead, and Israelis have no incentive to end the occupation

Gideon Levy

Mohamed Fahmy's renunciation of Egyptian identity can be linked to a discourse of national 'cleansing' that casts out those viewed as disloyal

Mohamad Elmasry

In 2008, more than one migrant domestic worker died in Lebanon per week - primarily in cases of suicide or failed escape attempts

Belen Fernandez

How long will it be before Cairo understands that violence cannot resolve what are fundamentally political and socio-economic problems?

Ramzy Baroud

Turmoil in Yemen and growing influence of Iran offers no easy policy options to containing crisis on its border

Sharif Nashashibi

The US media, conservative or liberal, has become a loudspeaker for the Israeli government

CJ Werleman