Emily Boulter works as a foreign affairs researcher in Brussels
Shaking the status quo on women and Jews in Algeria
A number of Algerian writers and journalists are creating a stir both at home and abroad by taking on some of the most controversial subjects of our age, such as Islam and the position of Jews and women. It is an example to the whole Arab world
- 10 July 2016
South Africa stood still. Now it must act on violence
Reeva Steenkamp's untimely death could prove instrumental in forcing both the South African government and its citizens to tackle domestic violence
- 18 February 2013
Assad's fair ladies: the western-educated women who lulled the world into a false impression of Syria
Assad's repressive tactics have been no secret, but the outside world was previously less sensitive to them due, in part, to a hand-full of elegant, western educated women
- 18 November 2011
The dark side of the "Rainbow Nation"
Is the new South African still the place that Mandela intended?
- 25 July 2011
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