Global Voices

A German court on Friday jailed for life a Saudi psychiatrist who killed six people and wounded more than 300 when he drove a rented SUV through a crowded Christmas market in 2024. Taleb Jawad al-Abdulmohsen , 51...

Ali Abunimah Returns to Zurich to Give the Talk That Got Him Arrested Esad Širbegović is a writer and analyst based in Zurich, Switzerland. He is also a member of the International Expert Team at the Institute for Research of Genocide...

History is terrifyingly contingent, and what seems obvious now was not always obvious then: nor, indeed, was it inevitable Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Joseph Ducreux : Self-portrait, called the Surprise Photo is in...

A man accused of carrying out a series of anti-Muslim attacks in Edinburgh that left five people injured has been charged with five counts of terrorism -linked attempted murder, as Muslim leaders warned the attack reflects a...

Muslim associations in Scotland and the UK have spoken out against an 'alarming pattern of violence' against Muslim communities following the wounding of five in Edinburgh in suspected Islamophobic attacks. The attacks in Edinburgh on Friday night saw...

Sun’s out, and while some people are ready for (halal) pool parties, some of us just want to pick up a good book or ten. And with Muharram having just begun, it’s important for us not to get caught up...

The Muslim Council of Britain has called for more protection of mosques and Muslim community centres from repeated acts of vandalism and "targeted hostility". It has also published a handbook to ensure the safety of those institutions and the...

A trope of racism is that all members of a racialised group must, at all times, be citizens of the most unimpeachable character. Should any members fail to meet that standard, no matter how big or small the infraction, the...

Tehran is preparing for the funeral of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in what authorities are portraying as both a historic farewell and a demonstration of national unity under the country's new leadership. More than 100 days...

No one anticipated the success of Syrian Canadian author Zoulfa Katouh's debut book, As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow, not even her. While that book centred on hope amid a brutal clampdown of a revolution that rocked Syria...

From the moment that the first ayah of the Qur’an was revealed – “Iqra!” – reading has been a foundational part of the Islamic tradition. The Qur’an was the first book established by the Muslim community, heralding the beginning of...

Senegal is navigating a major political crisis following President Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s dismissal May 22 of his longtime ally and prime minister, Ousmane Sonko. The power struggle between the former allies raises significantly the risk of the West African state...

Miss Imani had just finished benchmark testing and was sending her last student back to the classroom when she heard it: the sharp crack of gunfire that echoed off the high ceilings of the Islamic Center of San Diego's...

British far-right demonstrators have been accused of exploiting the murder of British student Henry Nowak to amplify Islamophobia - despite the incident having no links to Islam or Muslims In Southampton on Tuesday, a group of far-right individuals...

The UK government's decision to revoke the visas of political commentators Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur has sparked a backlash from free speech advocates, rights groups and event organisers, who say the move raises serious concerns...

Something strange happened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival: A number of French films were greeted with loud boos and cries of “Fascist!” The audiences were not booing the films themselves, or castigating the films’ directors. Rather, they were responding...

Matt Kennard shows in his new book that the bipartisan War on Terror laid the groundwork for the Trump presidency and the rise of fascism — now, with extremists empowered, we face the consequences. In the United States, but also...

“Democracy” is a slogan, a value-judgement more than it is a description, and a term of praise and abuse in political debates more than a defined programme. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Licensed under the...

What is hegemony? Is the United States losing it? By Michael BRENNER Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su HEGEMONY. “Hegemony, Hegemon everywhere — but not a ‘definition’ in sight.” Talk about American foreign policy is...

The son of British right-wing politician Rupert Lowe has reportedly married a Muslim woman of Libyan descent, raising eyebrows given the Restore Britain founder’s frequent anti-Muslim and anti-immigration pronouncements. Reports in legacy and social media have suggested that the...

Mohamed Salah bid an emotional farewell to Liverpool F.C. on Sunday, ending a historic era at Anfield as one of the club's greatest ever players and one of the most influential Arab and Muslim athletes in modern sport. The Egyptian...

“My legs were shaking and my hands and my head were hurting a lot. I felt like a rock.” That was how nine-year-old Odai Shanah described feeling on 18 May at the Islamic Center of San Diego, where...

Many UK Muslims are feeling anxious and afraid ahead of the Islamic celebration of Eid al-Adha this week, as it comes following rising Islamophobia , including far-right marches and a mosque shooting in San Diego last week....

British nationalism has now become so synonymous with Anti-Muslim sentiment that it’s almost impossible to disentangle national pride from Islamophobia. The “Unite the Kingdom” march that was organised by Tommy Robinson this past weekend exemplifies this shift towards...

The Islamic Society of San Diego Tragedy struck the Muslim community of San Diego in a murderous attack by a pair of armed teenagers who killed three people, including a security guard, before shooting themselves at a mosque on 18...

Dr. Mansoor Malik is a professor of psychiatry at John Hopkins. For most of his career, his work has been what you’d expect from a clinician-educator at a major academic medical center: healthcare worker wellbeing, peer support programs, minority physician...

Somaliland could be on the verge of gaining international recognition from a second country, the United Arab Emirates , nearly five months after being recognised by Israel in a controversial decision that sent shockwaves across the international...

As US Muslims grieved in the wake of the fatal shooting at a San Diego mosque and Islamic centre, community leaders said they were heartbroken but not surprised by the attack. Monday's shooting, which left three community members dead,...

A year after their brief war in 2025, both India and Pakistan are revving up their war frenzy. The drums of victory are being beaten with nationalistic zeal on both sides. The two nations teem with jingoism, a sense of...

London police said Sunday officers arrested 20 people the previous day at a hate march organised by far-right activist Tommy Robinson and 12 people at a counter-demonstration fused with a pro-Palestinian protest . The city's Metropolitan Police...

Racism and Islamophobia were on full display at London’s far-right rally on Saturday, where participants mocked Muslims and called on migrants to leave the country. Tens of thousands crowded the streets of the British capital for the so-called "Unite...

Hundreds of thousands of pro-Palestine demonstrators marched through central London on Saturday for the annual Nakba Day protest , in what organisers described as a mass mobilisation against Israel’s war on Gaza and the far...

Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Tucker Carlson, like any genius in the media world, has an uncanny knack for zeroing in on men and mice who have something ‘original’ to contribute. His...

Hundreds of thousands of protesters are expected to march in London on Saturday in commemoration of the 78th anniversary of the Nakba and to call for an end to Israel's ongoing attacks on Gaza. The 1948 Nakba - or...

Germany’s federal system of government makes the country’s politics seem so complicated that most people outside Germany give up trying to understand it. At the federal level, there is the parliament (the Bundestag), a ceremonial president and a chancellor. At...

Shocking footage of a French nun being assaulted in broad daylight in Jerusalem’s Old City at the end of April sparked widespread outrage among church figures, amid warnings of a surge in attacks by Israeli settlers and the...

The UK government used fake organisations and forged documents to disrupt its enemies and protect its interests amid the Cold War, declassified files show. The information comes in a series of highly sensitive files which were released to the...

Paris hosted its first-ever Modest Fashion Week. And across the board, from the brands promoting their Muslim-friendly designs to the hijabi influencers flown out to promote, it seems to have been lauded as a success for inclusion and progression. However, there’s...

The "Sharia-Free America Caucus", a congressional group in the United States that claims to advocate for stopping the spread of Islamic law , was established in December 2025 and has quickly reached more than 60 members—amounting to...

The UK's local elections in May have offered a telling window into where British politics is heading. Arguably, they signal one of the most profound challenges to the post-World War II two-party system in modern Britain, as mainstream support...

Two attacks in central Mali claimed by Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists have killed more than 30 people, local, security and administrative sources told AFP on Thursday. The two strikes came less than a fortnight after a large-scale, coordinated...

The US has announced a new counterterrorism strategy, which claims for the first time ever that the Muslim Brotherhood is the originator of both Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State extremist group. The strategy was announced on Tuesday...

As a retired Metropolitan police detective, I’m alarmed that senior officers might ban Palestine marches in central London in the wake of the Golders Green stabbings. Every march I have attended as a citizen has been nothing but peaceful....

The Palestine Coalition on Wednesday filed a complaint against the Metropolitan Police Commissioner over two media interviews, in which he accused the groups of antisemitism. The complaint, sent to the London Mayor's Office, was made regarding Mark Rowley's...

Pro-Palestine groups and anti-racism organisations in Britain have intensified their mobilisation efforts for a major march to mark Nakba Day set to take place in London on 16 May after reaching an agreement with police over the...

Have you ever come across someone whose life has thrown so many curveballs at them that it almost sounds unbelievable, and yet here they are, still standing? Naz Shah , who is Labour MP for the West Yorkshire constituency of...