Politics & Conflict

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Book review: Under Pressure

Faruk Šehić's novel, an unflinching account of the conflict in Bosnia, explores the futility and brutality of war.

Children playing street football in Tbilisi, Georgia

Blood on the terraces

Football is supposed to bring people together, but across disputed borders, even team names can become political weapons

Boer women and children in a British concentration camp in the Transvaal

Feminism’s history wars

Millicent Fawcett is now honoured in Westminster, but what about the women who saw their fight as part of a wider struggle?

US protesters stage a walkout from work in response to Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court

A woman’s scorn

In the age of Trump and #MeToo comes a timely challenge to the idea that female anger is irrational.

Martyrs’ Monument in downtown Beirut

Race to the future

Transcending its many divisions and tracing a fraught history, can the Beirut marathon bring the city together?

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