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Two alphabets, one struggle: How Kurdish communities are building a digital future

Written by Eduardo Avila

27 August 2025

The leaks we missed

Written by Noor

25 June 2025

West Asia and North Africa in 2024: Turmoil, transformation, and trauma

Written by Walid El Houri

23 December 2024

Portraits of exile: Feminista group's ongoing struggle for justice in Iran

Written by Maryam Mirza

23 November 2023

Stories about Iraq

Do all corridors lead to Haifa?

India’s ambitions and Israel’s covert plans align, transforming corridors into tools to sideline Iran’s influence

Written by Reza Talebi

16 September 2025

Have the Kurds turned away from the quest for an autonomous state?

Abdullah Öcalan’s landmark declaration for the PKK to lay down arms ends decades of armed insurgency.

Written by Stephanie Almughrabi

8 August 2025

From the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile: WANA’s unresolved water disputes

Decades of agreements and water-sharing deals have often exacerbated tensions rather than resolving them

Written by Raseef22

22 February 2025

Trade wars and military threats: The battle for economic influence in WANA

WANA nations are diversifying trade away from the US, but Trump’s economic and military pressures raise tensions, threatening to turn economic rivalry into conflict.

Written by Walid El Houri

14 February 2025

Iraqi Assyrians struggle for freedom of expression amid political and extremist threats

Iraqi Assyrians struggle for freedom of expression amid political and extremist threats.

Written by Saman Dawood سامان داود

Translated by Honey Hashem, Mariam A.

26 September 2023

How Kurdish language divisions hinder access to information

The scarcity of online resources points to an endangered language

Written by Tara Aziz

6 September 2023

Central Asian states lead the way in the repatriation of foreign terrorist fighters’ families from Syria and Iraq

Questions regarding success of rehabilitation and reintegration programs remain open

Written by Nurbek Bekmurzaev

5 July 2023

Persecuted Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light minority denied asylum in Europe amidst escalating violence

Minority religious members fear death at home for alleged heresy

Written by Hadil Elkhouly

27 May 2023

The plight of Kurdish journalists in their struggle for free expression

Stateless Kurdish journalists face oppression, censorship, and other threats

Written by Tara Aziz

8 May 2023

Call to Action on International Migrants Day: Stop forced labour and restore workers’ agency

It is vital to ratify global standards around migration

Written by Ambika Tandon, Francisca Ankrah, Tsigereda Birhanu, Sandigan Kuwait

18 December 2022

Iranian protest crackdown targets ethnic minorities

Security forces are targeting the Baloch and Kurdish populations

Written by Hamid Yazdan Panah

10 October 2022

Queen Elizabeth II through the Arab prism

The Queen symbolized the waning colonial world order

Written by Nasser Rabbat

21 September 2022

Opening of shipping routes from Ukraine will not abate commodity and food pressure on the Middle East and North Africa

Low harvests, destroyed equipment, occupied lands threaten global food supply

Written by Global Voices Central & Eastern Europe

14 August 2022

Iraq, Iran, and local residents continue to oppose Turkey's hydroelectric projects along the Tigris

Ilisu Dam on the Tigris provokes local and international resistance

Written by Global Voices Central & Eastern Europe

19 July 2022

Ukraine's war unleashes flood of racism by media and politicians against Arab war victims

Media: Ukrainians are 'blond with blue eyes,' 'civilized' unlike Syrians and Iraqis

Written by Dahlia Kholaif

2 March 2022

‘Stop silencing MENA critical voices,’ say activists in open letter to Twitter and Facebook

Human rights defenders denounce censorship by social media platforms

Written by Dahlia Kholaif

20 December 2020

Female genital mutilation likely to rise in the Middle East amid COVID-19 pandemic

'FGM is often practiced silently behind closed doors'

Written by Saoussen Ben Cheikh

21 July 2020

Fighting COVID-19 goes hand-in-hand with shuttering newspapers across the Middle East

Print journalism is a silent victim of the virus

Written by Saoussen Ben Cheikh

14 April 2020

Netizen Report: Iraq and Ecuador face network shutdowns amid public protests

Technology and human rights news from around the world.

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle, Netizen Report Team

11 October 2019

Activists speak out against Iraq's cybercrime bill

Iraqis who "undermine national independence" online could face life sentence

Written by Afef Abrougui

19 March 2019

Southern Iraq rages over dire living conditions

With frequent power cuts intensifying the effects of a brutal heatwave, people have taken to the streets to demand better public services, jobs and an end to corruption.

Written by Sali Mahdy

27 July 2018

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