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Interview

Turkey

Imperial vision and Ikhwan links drive Turkey’s Erdogan

Lebanon

Enough is enough. Beirut Bar Association President Melhem Khalaf. (Courtesy of Melhem Khalaf)

The daunting task of fighting corruption in Lebanon

Halima Mudhaffar

Saudi writer Halima Mudhaffar. (Al Arab)

Saudi woman writer sees social change as ‘desperately needed’

Zaki al-Soudeir

Naguib Mahfouz

Egyptian novelist Hamdi Abu Golayyel. (Al Arab)

Should Arab novels carry political agendas?

UNICEF

Helping hand. Libyan students receive school supplies provided by UNICEF during the summer school programme at a local school in Tripoli, Libya. (Reuters)

UNICEF sees regression for children’s welfare in Arab World

Hezbollah

Under the spotlight. Fighters from the Lebanese Shia Hezbollah movement take part in a military parade marking the party’s Martyrs’ Day in the eastern Bekaa Valley city of Baalbek, November 12 (AFP)

Book offers unprecedented detail on Hezbollah’s structure

Centre for Defending Freedom of Journalists Executive President Nidal Mansour. (Twitter)

Interview with journalists’ freedom advocate Nidal Mansour

Elie Abouaoun

Elie Abouaoun, director of the MENA programme at the US Institute of Peace. (Twitter)

Can the UN mediate the Iraq and Lebanon crises?

Qatar

Christian Chesnot, investigative journalist at French radio channel France Inter. (Courtesy of Christian Chesnot)

Former hostage Christian Chesnot sheds light on Qatar's influence networks, old and new