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Hala Alyan on her ‘messiest, most uncomfortable experience of writing’
I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, the author’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated memoir, explores trauma, displacement and the stories we pass on to our children
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New novel brings the forgotten story of Saddam Hussein’s atrocities against Iraqi Kurds to life
Human rights investigator Joost Hiltermann spent years documenting the murderous Anfal campaign. Now he is using fiction to tell the real story
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Seemab Gul on Ghost School: ‘Education is about questioning everything around us’
The director’s debut feature film offers a haunting meditation on the place of women and girls in Pakistani society
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‘What’s happened in Brick Lane surpasses gentrification’
Tourists flock to Banglatown's Instagram-friendly cafes and vintage shops. But is the area's British Bangladeshi identity being erased?
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Intimidation and harassment of female MPs is about patriarchy, not Palestine
Torrents of abuse. Police escorts. Panic alarms. The record number of female MPs is matched by record aggression — but it’s wrong to use it to score political points
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The enduring myth of the no-go zone
The idea of urban areas where law, order and state power have broken down has long been used against marginalised groups — but in recent years it has taken on a powerful anti-Muslim quality
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‘Women struggling with fertility tend to feel isolated’
Biological treatments like IVF often come with a host of moral and religious dilemmas
