The International
By Katie Dominy, Middle East correspondent for The InternationalCover photo credit: Dave Herring It’s been famously dubbed ‘the never-ending conflict’. In fact, the long-standing hostility between Israel and Palestine has been such a common feature of international affairs for the past seventy plus years, it has almost disappeared from the regular news cycle. That is, […]
In this series of articles, The International explores the ways in which Covid-19 has changed the course of our planet’s history. In this second piece, our editor-in-chief Adam Bennett examines how the climate crisis has been reshaped by the pandemic. “Today, dolphins can be seen swimming in the newly-clear waters of Venice. As people stay […]
In this series of articles, our foreign affairs editor Colin McGinness provides a concise roundup of the biggest global political events from the past month. North America As the death toll of the Covid-19 pandemic reaches past the grim milestone of 100,000 in the United States, the nation is still in the midst of preparing […]
In this series of articles, The International explores the ways in which Covid-19 has changed the course of our planet’s history. In this first piece, our editor-in-chief Adam Bennett examines how the debate around inequality, a defining issue of the 21st century so far, has been reshaped by the pandemic. “My savings were non-existent, and […]
After four months of successful social distancing and lockdown measures, Hong Kong has been an outlier in responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. With a sense of palpable optimism, the city has begun to reopen its schools and begin the process of returning to some sense of normality. However, for Hong Kong, ‘normality’ is likely to […]
This report was compiled by Joseph Eyre. You can find Joseph on Twitter here. For Houston Chronicle reporter Mike Glenn, it seemed an ordinary enough assignment. On a bright summer morning in 2016, the journalist headed to his city’s Islamic Da’wah Center to cover a protest organised by a Facebook group named ‘The Heart of […]
Quarantine, it transpires, is fertile ground for conspiracy theories. With flights grounded and social media in overdrive, reliable information is perhaps more scarce than ever before. Many popular fake news stories appearing on social media feeds in the developed world focus on comparisons with other countries. “Why are we trapped inside”, one viral post begins, […]
At times, it can feel as though a large part of modern politics is two sides throwing buzzwords at each other until the tedium becomes too much to bear and we stop reading the news. Wrapping up complex issues in near-meaningless slogans is a global (and historical) phenomenon, be it ‘Get Brexit Done’ in the […]
If 2016 will be remembered for its shocking elections and poll-defying referendums, 2019 may come to be remembered as a year of street protests. Across the globe, in far-flung countries with seemingly disparate catalysts mass movements have created plenty of trouble for those in power. As the movements are unconnected and far-removed from each other, […]
In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, public debate about issues of a sexual nature is not common. Even less common is to hear public accounts of sexual violence or abuse. This is why a social movement in Tunisia has sparked a new wave of testimony and solidarity amongst thousands of Tunisian citizens. […]