An Israeli gun boat passes through the Straits of Tiran near Sharm El Sheikh
Helmut Mejcher Interview

‘A Preventive Strike, Carelessly Provoked’

The Six-Day War was swiftly won by Israel, but created many political problems.
by Christoph Schmid
101 Years on From the Sykes-Picot Agreement
Olga Georges-Picot was the great-niece of François Georges-Picot, the diplomat who was a driving force in the signing of the Sykes-Picot Agreement.

Rethinking Sykes-Picot

by Daniel Gerlach
Interview with I Watch Founder Achref Aoudi
The Ministry of Interior in downtown Tunis.

Tunisia’s Corruption Fight

by Florian Guckelsberger
Youth near the Ebu Bekir mosque in Pazardjik.
Inequality Among Roma in Bulgaria

Radicalising the Bazaar

by Inna Rudolf
Boats tied up in Zarzis
Tribes In Tunisia

Tribes and Smugglers

by Simon Speakman Cordall
Clouds in the Armenian sky
Remembering the Armenian Genocide
Society

Turkey and its Demons

by Christian Meier
Cannonball Dives and Rocket Launchers
Life On Board a Libyan Gun-Ship

Cannonball Dives and Rocket Launchers

by  Sebastian Backhaus
Launch Photo Gallery
The gun ship
Murdered for a Cartoon
Nahed Hattar's Assassination

Murdered for a Cartoon

by Daniela Koenig
Daniela-Konig
At the Sodastream plant
Bubbling Tensions in the West Bank
Society

Jericho Bubbles

by Jan Rübel
A Kurdish wedding
Syrian and Kurdish Émigrés in St Petersburg
Politics

Baklava and Vodka

by Till Rimmele