Tag: Features

Gaza City – Over the past two years, we stopped counting seasons, days, and the passage of time.Days are no ...

IT is a small country village admired for its postcard views, but beneath the dark waters of the river that ...

THE final touches of straightening bedsheets, popping dinner in the oven, and then preparing for guests are taking place.  This ...

Over the past year, Gaza’s infrastructure has been subjected to a devastating reality.What once functioned under strain has been pushed ...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to Kapiri Mposhi, Zambia — In Dar es Salaam’s train station, hundreds of passengers sat amid ...

Mae Sot, Thailand – On the outskirts of this small Thai town on the border with Myanmar, a tattoo artist’s ...

TOWERS of empty kebab boxes pile messily on top of overflowing bins, the cheap vodka is flowing – and so ...

Damascus, Syria – In 2013, Mohamad Yamen, then nine years old, fled from the Damascus suburb of Jobar with his family.The ...

There’s an old saying in Urdu: Zaroorat ijaad ki maa hai (necessity is the mother of all inventions). I would ...

IN a heartbreaking moment, Safiyya Vorajee knelt down and placed a pack of Christmas cards next to her daughter Azaylia’s ...

HERE it is . . .  in black and white.  What Trump’s White House have said privately for months they’ve finally put in ...

Doha, Qatar – In the 1930s, a young Maqbool Fida Husain, barely in his 20s, arrived in the Indian financial ...

Years ago, while in county lockup, I came across a Dylan Thomas poem I didn’t fully understand. It read: “Do ...

Ukraine has mounted a fierce defence of Pokrovsk for the fifth straight week since Russia’s concerted offensive began to take ...

San Francisco, California – The memories come back in flashes: the ink-black night, the whipping cold, the dark waves lapping ...

Beirut, Lebanon – In the Palestinian refugee camp of Burj al-Barajneh, two men stood on opposite balconies, discussing the recent ...

'Hungry for justice'Members of the Venezuelan diaspora community in the US have likewise applauded the bounty as sending a strong ...

PINNED down to the floor, mortal terror spread through Lurata Lyon as her evil human trafficker captor instructed his goons: ...

WITH plummeting temperatures and Christmas costs just around the corner, the festivities aren’t always a joyful time for everyone. That’s ...

Tunis, Tunisia – Night had just about fallen in Halq al-Wadi, also known as La Goulette, a balmy coastal suburb ...