Sondos Sabra. Sondos Sabra is a translator and writer who has been trapped in the north of the Gaza Strip since the Israel-Hamas war began.

There are events so disfiguring that their impact and interpretation strip us of the accoutrements of ordinary life which serve as a buffer between consciousness and the depths of human cruelty. Last ...

By naming McSweeney chief of staff, Starmer has abolished No 10’s dual power structure and given his administration a more explicitly political stamp. One criticism long made of Gray was that, as a ...

Her position had become "unsustainable", Labour staff said.

This is Lebanon’s modern history: bloody and conflicted. Present events are unfortunately of a piece. Lebanon’s ...

There’s a particular type of column, upsettingly common in British newspapers over the past few years, that can be summarised ...

Governmental secondary schools in Egypt do not allow Palestinian students to enrol in classes, so recent exiled ...

Scotland is not immune to the Burnham effect. In the SNP’s recent Programme for Government, Holyrood’s equivalent of the King ...

This Royal Court play about the author’s anti-Semitism argues for and against Israel with a composure as uncanny as one of his plots.

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What really happened at the Conservative Party party? A jubilant atmosphere before a new leader is crowned. And why is democracy a low priority for American voters? Rachel Cunliffe is joined by Andrew ...

Why did he attack a foreign policy decision that he set in motion? By Rachel Cunliffe James Cleverly has come out hard against Keir Starmer’s government, calling the decision to hand sovereignty of ...