Tala Abu Rahmeh writes for the political prisoners on strike in Israel’s jails

The Egyptian youth: the spark of the revolution, famous or anonymous, disappeared from the screens. I keep finding faces that are no more — or are slowly fading away…

Sophie Chamas discusses the recent spate of bombings that have targeted Beirut and reflects on Omar Shatah’s moving response to his father’s assassination.

Tilia Korpe explored artistic activism, or “artivism”, among the youth of Tunisia. We publish her interview with Tunisian rapper WMD

January 25, 2013, a Friday – a day of prayer – was supposed to be the peaceful 2nd anniversary of Egypt’s revolution. But it ended up in chaos and violence.

Welcome to the land of waiting. People here are born waiting. Waiting to return to a homeland lost, and, from the looks of it, in the most desperate moments, lost forever.

El Nadeem Centre provides treatment to victims of political violence and torture. Mashallah News met with psychiatrist Mona Hamed to discuss the nature of the psychological trauma engendered by political violence.

Photographer Jaber al-Azmeh takes on one of the Syrian Government’s most prominent symbols, the Ba’ath newspaper; turns it upside down and covers it with messages

Leave it to the Lebanese to hold up a cliché with pride. So many of us exploit the memory of a painful civil war to sensationalise ourselves.

What is Lebanon; what does it mean to be Lebanese? The things linked together to form the web of identity through which to perceive the homeland