Features

Going underground

The tunnels of Gaza might be portrayed as sinister routes for illicit weapons smuggling, but they provide essential arteries for livelihoods – and love

Break for the border

Gaza Journalist Ameera Ahmad related her experience of the day Gaza’s wall came down

Tear down the wall 2.0

The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is being celebrated around the world this November. But in the Middle East, the walls are still being built

In the shadows of the wall

The residents of the village of Bilin have become the most vociferous opponents of the Apartheid Wall. NOX meets one of its activists

Mean streets

In their attempt to separate the warring factions in Baghdad’s ever troubled Sadr City, the US introduced a policy straight from the Israeli playbook

Top 10 speeches that shaped the Arab world

For some reason empty rhetoric seems to be really effective in influencing Arab people, these are the mot memorable Arab public addresses

Death at 30 Cents

Oblivion comes cheap in the crumbling ruins of the old Soviet Cultural Centre in Kabul, home to thousands of addicts caught up in Afghanistan’s drug trade

No peace soon

Top 10 reasons why there will be no peace in the Middle East soon - along with Angry Arab As'ad abu-Khalil

The Secret Life of War

A new book by long-time Observer war correspondent, Peter Beaumont, charts the intimate details of war

Hard time

If anyone argues that prison is an insufficient deterrent against crime, ask our reader who spent 16 days in a cell