HAMAS: Leila Seurat provides a good basis for understanding what went wrong on 7 October, when Hamas made a drastic change of course. The purpose of it all was to put the Palestinian cause back on the global agenda, and it has largely succeeded.
GENDER EQUALITY: From Kurdish villages to college campuses, gender-based abuse knows no boundaries.
CONFLICT: Dream’s Gate offers a bracing perspective on female fighters battling IS.
IRAQ: The Iraqi journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has written an excellent book that dispels the typical view of a sectarian and divided society as the main cause of Iraq’s long and continuing tragedy.
TERRORISM Uncovering the history of the Islamic State through the lenses of its now-detained members, capturing the reality of life in a land ravaged by war.
CONFLICT: The abductions and disappearance of over 100,000 Syrians reveal yet another aspect of a cruel war strategy.
The hard times in Mosul are not over. The city that lived three years under Isis is now faced with a destructed infrastructure – on both a physical and social level.
GEOPOLITICS: Laurent Larcher calls for openness, value proposition and debate on French foreign policy. The author claims that France’s power elite conceal their real agenda behind meaningless statements and secrecy.
When the war comes reveals not only the increasing threat we are facing from far-right groups, but also the vulnerability of our constitutional systems.