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Justin Marozzi is the author of Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization, published in paperback on 6 August

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A mural is painted in downtown Oakland, California, this week - not long after the US presidential election. AFP

For as long as there have been people, there have been losers

November 13, 2020
Beirut, Lebanon, c. 1900 : general view. (Photo by APIC/Getty Images)

How the world fell in love with Beirut

August 7, 2020
The Chitral District of Pakistan is one of the many areas that Wilkinson explores, ever-eager to leave his desk in Islamabad. AFP

Book review: Isambard Wilkinson’s book Travels in a Dervish Cloak hums with humanity and humour

October 2, 2017
Mohamoud Nur, left, was mayor of Mogadishu, and a bit of a national celebrity, from 2010 to 2014. Kathrine Houreld / AP Photo

Book review: Go inside the world’s most troubled country with The Mayor of Mogadishu

August 30, 2016
The Nekton mission, funded by the insurer XL Caitlin, deploys two submersibles, Nemo and Nomad, with a team of divers from Project Baseline (Global Underwater Explorers), to plumb the depths for environmental data. Courtesy of Nekton and the XLC Deep Ocean Survey.

Nekton: an international scientific mission plumbing the depths to help save our oceans

August 17, 2016
Jaballa Matar was an 18-year-old student at the Teachers’ College of Cyrenaica in Benghazi and the co-editor of its literary journal, The Scholar, when this photo was taken in 1957. He was taken from the family's Cairo apartment in the 1990s and has not been heard of since. Courtesy Hisham Matar.

Book review: Hisham Matar’s The Return tells tale of a son’s search for a missing father in Libya

July 12, 2016
A sculpture in the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria, in the 1930s. AFP.

The National Book Club: The awakening of Gertrude Bell, Queen of the Desert

June 2, 2016

Sykes-Picot at 100: Arabs must take the lead

May 12, 2016
Libyan soldiers manning a military outpost, stop a car at a checkpoint in Wadi Bey, west of the city of Sirte, which is held by Islamic State militants. Ismail Zitouny / Reuters

In post-revolution Libya, people are still struggling in the long shadow of Qaddafi’s dictatorship

February 25, 2016
A street scene in Tripoli from 1970, a year after Qaddafi's coup overthrew Libya's short-lived monarchy. Keystone-France / Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images

Book review: Translating Libya by Ethan Chorin opens a window into a diverse country

December 31, 2015

Year in review 2015: The migrant crisis - tales of personal tragedy and political chaos

December 26, 2015
An Iraqi soldier records the aftermath of a suicide attack near Mosul. Mohammed Ibrahim / AP Photo

The long read: why the battle for Syria and Iraq is often a war waged with words

September 3, 2015
No explanation of the Greek crisis these days is complete without a reference or two to Greek mythology, and comment pieces are littered with vignettes about the capricious Greek gods, long-suffering heroes, sacrificial victims and half-human monsters bent on human destruction. Getty Images

The long read: why the Greek crisis has revived a pantheon of toiling heroes and reckless immortals

July 23, 2015
Turkish troops on parade at Gallipoli during World War I, circa 1915. Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

The long read: Forget Lawrence of Arabia, here’s the real history of the Middle East and World War 1

February 26, 2015
A child looks at the portraits of some of the 1,200 victims of the 1996 Abu Salim prison massacre by the regime in the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi on April 2, 2011. Odd Andersen / AFP

Book review: The Libyan Revolution and Its Aftermath describes the fragile state of post-Qaddafi Libya

February 12, 2015