Iraq: 20 Years On
Jeremy Bowen, BBC News, Iraq war 20 years on: How invasion plunged country into decades of chaos, 20 March 2023 “It is a sign of how bad the past...
Podcast: The News Agents: Anoosheh Ashoori
The News Agents, Global, 20 March 2023 – this is a powerful and important interview by Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel with Anoosheh Ashoori and his daughter Elika –...
Saudi Trans Issues
There are online elements to this account: Anya Zoledziowski and Tim Marchman, Vice, A Young Saudi Trans Woman Is Believed Dead After Being Lured From the US and Forced...
Yemen Child Brides
Social media element to this: The National, The Yemeni child bride activist leading the fight against the scourge of early marriage “Social media saved my life. After that, I...
Uighur Net
Masha Borak, Wired, The Strange Death of the Uyghur Internet, 2 Nov 2022 “China’s Muslim minority used to have its own budding cluster of websites, forums, and social media....
Saudi Arabia: Salma al-Shehab
Sky News, Salma al-Shehab: Leeds student jailed in Saudi Arabia is being used ‘to set an example’ and must be ‘immediately released’, says Amnesty International “Ms al-Shehab, who was...
Shireen Abu Akleh
Appalling scenes in Jerusalem at the funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh. As one post says, “a picture says a thousand words.” I have never seen anything like this before....