When one thinks of prison islands many names spring to mind – Devil’s Island, Robben Island, Alcatraz Island, to name a few. Gaza may not be an island or a […]
Middle East
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Michele Ernsting talks to leading Arab intellectual Fouad Ajami, the director of Middle Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University, about “The Cairo Trilogy”, one of the world’s most important works […]
(© Unembedded.com) Thorne Anderson’s photographs have appeared in publications around the world and in 2005 he contributed to “Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq”. In this programme […]
Since the outbreak of the second Palestinian uprising in the autumn of 2000, Palestinians’ freedom of movement has been severely limited. Throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip, checkpoints and […]
When the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who had made such a deep impact on developments in the Middle East for a generation, died in November 2004, Palestinians and many others […]
In the summer of 2002, Israel began erecting a barrier to seal off the occupied Palestinian territories. The move followed a series of Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel. 150 kilometres […]
In the summer of 2002, Israel began erecting a barrier to seal off the occupied Palestinian territories. The move followed a series of Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel. 150 kilometres […]
300,000 foreigners went to Israel in the 1990’s. They were replacing Palestinian labourers who had been barred from entering Israel after the outbreak of the intifada or Palestinian uprising. The […]