Mother-to-be terrified of bringing new life into a war of extermination.

Muhammad Abu Aida is determined to master the violin despite life-changing injury.

Justin Podur joins the program to discuss the man, his ideas and legacy.

Israel broadens assaults on civilian life in Lebanon.

Our last olive harvest produced oil with a bitter taste. 

Renaissance lawmakers ensconced in lobby.

‘Dehumanising rhetoric’ blamed as almost half of respondents say they recently suffered discrimination

Muslims across Europe are grappling with a “worrying surge” of racism that is being fuelled in part by “dehumanising anti-Muslim rhetoric”, the EU’s leading rights agency has said, as it published a survey in which nearly half of the Muslim respondents said they had recently experienced discrimination.

Published on Thursday by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), the survey of 9,600 Muslims across 13 member states found that racism and discrimination threads through most aspects of their lives.

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MP for nearby Spen Valley’s bill to propose change in law is creating disquiet in a community already concerned about health provision after Covid

On the streets of Bradford, where customers are inspecting colourful stacks of fruit and vegetables piled high outside the shops that sit in the shadow of tall minarets, assisted dying is not the hot topic of conversation.

Many here do not know that a debate on the issue is playing out in parliament, after Kim Leadbeater, the MP for nearby Spen Valley, put forward a private member’s bill proposing a change in the law.

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Palestinian farmers are risking their lives to provide food during genocide.

“Our real suffering hasn’t even started yet.”

National Union of Journalists condemns misuse of “counterterror” legislation

Resistance leader understood the path he was on, and never backed down from fighting for his people's liberation.

“After all we have been through, they can never make us abandon our land. This is our land. It will remain ours.”

Elderly sisters who shared house in Gaza City killed in an Israeli attack.

I made a life for myself in Gaza despite my impoverished upbringing. Israel’s genocide wrecked it.

Preacher who built powerful Islamic movement was one-time ally of Erdoğan before they fell out spectacularly

The US-based cleric Fethullah Gülen, who built a powerful Islamic movement in Turkey and beyond but spent his later years mired in accusations of orchestrating an attempted coup against the Turkish leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has died. He was 83.

Herkul, a website that publishes Gülen’s sermons, posted on X that Gülen had died on Sunday evening in the US hospital where he was being treated.

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My friends and I were preparing for a festive Eid, but I was chased down by a gang of men and attacked by one of them.

Almost £3m issued to mosques and associated sites under places of worship security scheme in year to April 2023

A record amount of security funding has been issued to mosques in the UK via a government scheme to protect places of worship from hate crime.

According to figures obtained by the Guardian via freedom of information requests, almost £3m was issued to mosques and associated sites under the places of worship security scheme from April 2022 to April 2023, a significant increase from the just over £73,000 issued between 2016 and 2017.

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Decimated health sector in Gaza forces writer to diagnose and treat herself.

Palestinians call for “maximum pressure” to stop accelerating genocide.