Turkey, Journalism and Erdoğan
The following is a Q and A between Luke Sheehan and Deniz Güngör. Can you…
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Lebanon: 5,000 Kilometres Away
Beirut, Mar Elias, 26 November, 7pm. Despite the cold wave that hit the city this…
Lebanon: Domestic Considerations May Prove Decisive to Hezbollah
Media coverage of the war currently unfolding in Lebanon describe Hezbollah as an “Iranian-backed” group,…
The Austrian Mind
There still exists – even today – a yearning, a nostalgia for European solidarity, a…
A Rainy Night in Saifi – Luke Sheehan and Nadim Shehadi in conversation
What is a ‘real country’? For the Irish, living as we do on a divided…
LONG READ: The Degradation of SYRIZA
SYRIZA’s rise to power in 2015 created shock waves around the world. The international Left…
Putin’s Priorities: Toilets, Gay Pride and WWIII
In mid-January, St. Petersburg’s governor, Alexander Beglov, stated in his blog that Russian soldiers returning…
The Israeli Project
So, Israel. Is it a good thing? Was it a justifiable demand for a ‘homeland’…
Greece: An Accident Waiting to Happen
Public anger has erupted over a lack of political accountability in the wake of the…
Podcast: Brazilian Election Special
Fellipe Lopes joins Frank Armstrong to discuss the results of the first round of the…
“Shameless” Women of Iran Unite
Maryam was just a child when one day her parents left her at home alone…
Podcast: Italian Election Special
In our latest podcast Frank Armstrong is joined by Massimiliano Galli and Daniele Idini to…
Maasai Forced off Land by UAE Royals
Forcing indigenous peoples off ancestral lands to create so-called Gardens of Eden, pasture for grazing,…
A Greek Watergate Unfolds
A phone surveillance scandal targeting journalists and a prominent politician has been simmering for some…
Refugee Pushbacks in the Balkans
On the last day of February, the first Ukrainian refugees arrived in Serbia. Radoš Đurović,…
Travels in Ukraine 2015
Frank Armstrong recalls two overland trips into Ukraine in 2015. The first was through the…
Russia-Ukraine: Everything to Lose
A hundred years on from the blood-stained birth of a partitioned island of Ireland, another…
“Nuances”: Fellipe Lopes in Conversation
“Nuances” is a work in progress by South American documentary maker Fellipe Lopes. Since May…
What Next for Aghanistan?
So where do we go from here? Better still how do we even begin to…
Covid-19: The View from Turkey
On March 11th, 2020 the first case of Covid-19 was diagnosed in Turkey, followed by…