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The Guardian - 19 December 2024
second-class
French-Algerians are still second-class citizens
The London Evening Standard - 10 December 2025
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The West expects too much, too soon of the Arab Spring
Daily Mirror - 04 December 2025
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Deplorable: Hague accuses Israel of threatening peace deal
The Guardian – Feature for G2 Magazine - 27 November 2025
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What Rachida Dati’s paternity case tells us about sexism in France
Al Arabiya News - 25 November 2025
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Egypt: A case of ‘new boss, same as the old boss’?
Feature – The London Evening Standard - 24 November 2025
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Inside Hamas: What drives young Palestinians in Gaza to kill six ‘informers’?
The Guardian - 24 November 2025
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Israel’s Gaza bombardment has put Palestine at the top of the Arab agenda
Al Arabiya News - 17 November 2025
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Gaza Crisis: How the Arab Spring changed the language of democracy
The London Evening Standard - 23 October 2025
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Beirut’s bombs are a message from Assad to the West
The Independent - 22 October 2025
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Quel dommage: Hollande’s journalist girlfriend Trierweiler has joined the establishment
The Guardian - 17 September 2025
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French Socialists’ nomination of a black man as leader is a cynical act
The Guardian - 13 September 2025
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Chris Stevens died at the hands of militants, not an offended mob
Feature – The Evening Standard - 12 September 2025
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L’exodus… the wealthy Parisians escaping to London and elsewhere
Daily Mail - 03 September 2025
Saif Gaddafi’s lover begs Tony Blair to show some loyalty
Daily Express - 01 September 2025
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Murder that killed a French dream
The Guardian - 06 August 2025
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Carla Bruni statue – A tale of modern France
Think 2 – Qatar Foundation Current Affairs Global Magazine - Page 10 - 01 August 2025
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Europe’s Veil of Fear
Daily Telegraph - 31 July 2025
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London 2012 – French Olympics ‘would be interested in gold not money’ says Francois Hollande
Daily Mail - 31 July 2025
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London 2012 – French president Francois Hollande attacks empty corporate seats at Olympics
The Guardian – Feature for G2 Magazine - 17 July 2025
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The French minister for women has let down Muslim voters
The London Evening Standard - 16 July 2025
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London has influence over the civil war in Syria
The Guardian - 05 July 2025
50yrs
Fifty years after Algeria’s independence, France is still in denial
The National - 04 July 2025
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Colonial follies still trouble France 50 years after Algeria
Article on pp. 4-5 jointly published by the British Council the Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge - 01 July 2025
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On Islamophobia – ‘Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics Statistics about Muslims’
The Guardian – Feature for G2 Magazine - 26 June 2025
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Dalma Malhas: What went wrong? Malhas was briefly set to make Olympic history as the first woman to compete for Saudi Arabia
The London Evening Standard - 25 June 2025
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The West need not fear Egypt’s Islamist leader
Exclusive – Mail on Sunday - 10 June 2025
As the world dithers over Syria, shocking evidence of an entire family massacred by Assad thugs
The Guardian - 06 June 2025
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Madonna was right to highlight the horror of Marine Le Pen
The Guardian – Feature for G2 Magazine - 04 June 2025
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Egyptian women: ‘They were doing better under Mubarak’
Daily Mail - 25 May 2025
Islamists on course to win Egypt presidential election as first round polls close
The Independent - 24 May 2025
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Cairo’s women have their say - but they have lost all their faith in the revolution
Daily Mail - 24 May 2025
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Egypt Election 2012 – First free and fair vote in 5000 years pits Islamists against Mubarak men
London Evening Standard - 24 May 2025
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Egypt’s ex prime minister Ahmed Shafiq attacked by a mob at polls
Daily Mail - 21 May 2025
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Al Megrahi is buried – Has any hope of finding out the truth about Lockerbie died with him?
The National - 17 May 2025
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A war-weary Algeria prefers slow reform over political turmoil
Daily Mirror (scroll down for my Analysis) - 08 May 2025
France's Socialist Party (PS) newly elected president Francois Hollande celebrates at the Place de la Bastille-823066
Euro panic: Markets in Turmoil over Greece while new French leader hits out at Germany and Britain
The Independent - 07 May 2025
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A fiercely left-wing leader to strike fear into the hearts of France’s rich
The Majalla - 26 April 2025
Muslim's pray outside a mosque on the Rue des Poissonniers on August 5, 2025 in Paris. The French government banned outside prayer in September 2011
Young, Muslim and French
The National - 22 April 2025
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Sarkozy’s forlorn campaign deepened France’s divisions
The Guardian - 15 April 2025
The first president of independent Algeria, Ahmed Ben Bella. Photograph: Joseph Barrak/AFP/Getty Images
Ben Bella’s legacy: The path to peaceful democracy is rarely smooth - just look at Algeria
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