In Tunisia, unregulated “miracle” supplements smuggled in from Algeria promise rapid weight changes but leave behind a trail of illness and death In a meticulous investigation for Alqatiba, journalist Sameh Gharsalli...
A Bosnian intellectual confronts a thorny topic: the national identity of Bosnian Muslims In his polemical article “Only a Crazy Muslim…”, published in Prometej, Bosnian intellectual Tarik Haverić confronts a thorny...
Living and dying with lions (and tigers) on the Nile On April 2, Egyptian father Ibrahim Abdel Fattah, dressed in his worn-out jilbab, stood next to a representative of the...
A photo essay from Khartoum and Berber April 2023-ongoing We knew we had to leaveعلمنا أنه يجب أن نغادرر The war began not with a warning but with the sound...
A once-celebrated media personality and political fixer, Mehdi Ghezzar now finds himself sidelined as Franco-Algerian tensions have taken on a new, harder edge In an article for the French quarterly Revue...
A critical reflection on the hollowing out of a historic term, and a plea for its renewal In a nation where politics is dominated by questions of identity and social...
Investigative journalists in North Africa are being hunted, hacked and harassed, but they haven’t stopped telling the truth A troubling wind is blowing across the world. From Europe to the...
African nations are rethinking their economic future. Once a cornerstone of US-Africa trade, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) now stands effectively nullified by Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs, ultimately jeopardising...
What Trump’s favourite word reveals about centuries of empire, economy, and exchange. Donald Trump has proudly declared “tariff” his fifth favourite word. At this point, many (including him) consider the word...
How pilgrimage becomes an act of endurance and communal memory for the Nazareth Baptist Church in South Africa. Pilgrimage is one of the oldest expressions of faith across cultures. A...
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