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Sherif Arafa is an Egyptian author and an editorial cartoonist.

Artist of the month

Sherif Arafa is an Egyptian author and cartoonist

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Selma Bichbich campaigns internationally for young people to have a greater say in politics.

Youth

“Our generation will lead differently”

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by Selma Bichbich
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
The company Spiro has deployed over 80,000 electric motorcycles across several African countries. Other start-ups have been less successful.

Public infrastructure

Why impact start-ups tend to work best where they are needed least

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by Olumide Onitekun
Friedrich Merz and Benjamin Netanyahu at a joint press conference in Jerusalem in December 2025.

Israel/Palestine

A distorted idea of the “reason of state”

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by Hans Dembowski
Without press freedom, darkness prevails: Streetlights have been turned off in Cairo during an effort to save energy in March.

Press freedom

What it means to be a journalist in President Sisi’s Egypt

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by Mostafa Nabil
Ultra fans of Al Ahly protest against the government in Tahrir Square in Cairo in September 2011.

Football stories

Egypt’s Ultras as part of the revolution

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by Marius Moniak
The Quizat office in Damascus.

Post-conflict societies

Syria’s start-ups: building innovation from the rubble

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by Rishabh Jain
A boy is hanging up laundry at Beirut’s Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, which has been converted into an emergency shelter for refugees.

Conflict

Life in war-torn Lebanon: refuge in a football stadium

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by Ali Awadeh
GenZ 212 protests in front of the Moroccan parliament in Rabat in October 2025.

Gen Z

“Hospitals before stadiums”: Morocco’s youth protests over football

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by Salma Mansouri
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