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      Faisal Al Yafai

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      People wave Turkish flags in front of a billboard displaying the face of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
      Syria is collapsing – and could take Turkey and Europe with it

      In Turkey, France and Britain, the established order is quaking. What will come next, asks Faisal Al Yafai?

      OpinionJuly 18, 2016
      Tony Blair with a copy of the Chilcot report. The chilling effect of his actions in Iraq will affect western policymakers for many years. (Photo by Stefan Rousseau - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
      Why the Chilcot report will only lead to more deaths

      Iraq was a war of choice. Syria is a war of morality. The Chilcot report obscures that distinction, writes Faisal Al Yafai

      OpinionJuly 11, 2016
      A Iraqi rescue worker looks for victims at the site of a car bomb attack on a commercial area in Karada, Baghdad (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
      As Baghdad is bombed, Iraq's politicians just bicker

      From the battlefield of Fallujah to the parliament in Baghdad, Iraq's prime minister faces the same challenges, writes Faisal Al Yafai

      OpinionJuly 04, 2016
      A Chromebook laptop. Chris Ratcliffe / Bloomberg
      In our data-driven world, how much should you hand over?

      Google has an enormous amount of data about its users. Joseph Dana and Faisal Al Yafai take opposing views on whether this is a good thing

      OpinionJune 30, 2016
      Has the British street finally risen up after years of oppression? (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
      Did the 'British street' just have its own Arab Spring?

      Have the British people finally risen up against a tyrannical, unelected European regime? Faisal Al Yafai is not convinced

      OpinionJune 28, 2016
      Flowers and messages left in remembrance of slain Labour MP Jo Cox are pictured in the centre of Birstall, northern England (AFP / Oli Scarff)
      The killing of a politician highlights the tangled politics of murder

      Those who argue that the killing of one person should not be politicised are perfectly happy to politicise the killing of dozens, writes Faisal Al Yafai

      OpinionJune 20, 2016
      A Kosovo Albanian man is seen through an Albanian flag at a rally. The enmities that caused the wars of the Balkans have not gone away (AFP Photo / Dimitar Dilkoff)
      Without the EU, old demons will return to the Balkans

      While Britain debates whether to leave the European Union, patience is running out on the continent's borders, writes Faisal Al Yafai

      OpinionJune 13, 2016
      Donald Trump has made many statements that don't always line up precisely with established facts. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
      Does it really matter if politicians bend the truth?

      Across the democratic world, from the US to Turkey to the Philippines, politicians have been accused of not telling the truth. Do we even care, asks Faisal Al Yafai?

      OpinionJune 07, 2016
      Yemeni soldiers stand guard in the southeastern Yemeni port of Mukalla (AFP Photo / Stringer)
      Al Qaeda has made an expensive mistake in Yemen

      The militant group tried to take a leaf out of the ISIL playbook, writes Faisal Al Yafai

      OpinionMay 23, 2016
      A woman selects a hijab at an outdoor market. Why does this piece of cloth anger people so much? (Reuters/Beawiharta)
      Hatred of the hijab is part of a broader anger against women

      After an American man was convicted of stripping off a woman's hijab, Faisal Al Yafai asks: why does this piece of cloth provoke such rage?

      OpinionMay 17, 2016
      The new London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been called the city's first Muslim mayor. But is he? Jack Taylor/Getty Images
      Calling Sadiq Khan a Muslim mayor is a dangerous myth

      London does not have a Muslim mayor, writes Faisal Al Yafai. Indeed, it probably never will

      OpinionMay 09, 2016
      Iraqi Turkmen forces patrol a checkpoint in the northern city of Tuz Khurmatu. The Syrian conflict has destabilised two countries and shows no signs of ending (AFP Photo/Karim Sahib)
      Step by step, we are sleepwalking back to Assad's Syria

      As the war enters its sixth year, doing nothing differently is the most substantial risk of all, writes Faisal Al Yafai

      OpinionApril 25, 2016
      Followers of radical Shia cleric Muqtada Al Sadr march in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
      Iraq’s sectarian stance is poisoning its politics

      Iraq's prime minister may not survive today – and all because he is challenging a broken, sectarian system, writes Faisal Al Yafai

      OpinionApril 11, 2016
      Zaha Hadid in 2010 at the opening of her first London building. The Iraqi-born architect passed away last month and was mourned by millions around the world. (Photographer: Simone Cecchetti/ Zaha Hadid Architects)
      Zaha Hadid and the Arab world’s forgotten past

      Nothing about the famous architect was simple, writes Faisal Al Yafai – including her relationship with her Iraqi past

      OpinionApril 06, 2016
      Russian president Vladimir Putin looks at a map of the Crimean Peninsula. Syria is not the first example of Russia playing politics across a country's territory (Photo: EPA/Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool)
      The Putin doctrine sees the Middle East as a game of chess

      Russia intends to prove itself the equal of the West – even if that means trampling over the Middle East, writes Faisal Al Yafai

      OpinionMarch 21, 2016
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