Ananya Vajpeyi 20 December 2021
Christophe Jaffrelot’s latest oeuvre provides a comprehensive account of how, and why, India started descending into today’s political nightmare. A review.
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Simone Disegni 15 December 2021EU institutions have launched a large-scale deliberative democracy exercise to gather fresh reform ideas. Now they need to decide what to do with them. - Evan Pheiffer 30 November 2021The 100,000-strong Turkish minority of Thrace is proudly attached to its roots – and equally cautious at Ankara’s religious-conservative drift.
- Andrea Walton 11 November 2021Covid-battered Bulgaria is heading to polls for the third time in a year. But a hung Parliament looms, again.
- Rabii El Gamrani 9 November 2021The thousand-year old story of Moroccan Jews today spans throughout the world. And leaves an unmissable mark on the country’s identity.
- Abdel Aziz Hali 25 October 2021Pro- and anti-Saied demonstrators are staging a growing “squares battle” after the centralization of powers in the hands of the President.
- Seán Golden 30 August 2021The failure of America’s military mission to Afghanistan – just like the former Soviet one – now leaves room to test China’s different approach to international affairs. Can it deliver any progress to a disgraced country?
- Beatrice Morlacchi 22 July 2021Palestinian and Syrian refugees, but also other migrant workers, are suffering the dire consequences of Lebanon’s social and economic free fall. Poverty, racism and harassment are the daily menu. Here’s what a few NGOs are doing to try and help them.
- Luca Steinmann 5 July 2021Saving a country from its collapse. An interview with Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Raï after his visit to the Vatican
- Beatrice Morlacchi 30 April 2021Lebanese people seem condemned to the same destiny as the mythical Sisyphus: rebuild their lives all over again. The response: exile, rebellion or lethargy?
