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Leila Aboulela wins PEN Pinter prize for writing on migration and faith
ByElla Creamer July 9, 2025

Judges praised the Sudanese author for centring Muslim women, describing her writing as “a balm, a shelter, and an inspiration”Leila Aboulela has won this year’s PEN Pinter prize for her writing on migration, faith and the lives of women.The prize is a…

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Africa | Awards and prizes | Ayatollah Ali Khamenei | Benjamin Netanyahu | Books | Culture | Donald Trump | Fiction | Gaza | Iran | Iran's nuclear programme | Islam | Israel | Israel–Iran War | Middle East and north Africa | Nuclear weapons | Palestinian territories | PEN literary prizes | Petrol prices | Religion | Sudan

Leila Aboulela wins PEN Pinter prize for writing on migration and faith
ByElla Creamer July 9, 2025

Judges praised the Sudanese author for centring Muslim women, describing her writing as “a balm, a shelter, and an inspiration”Leila Aboulela has won this year’s PEN Pinter prize for her writing on migration, faith and the lives of women.The prize is a…

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Skeleton found in pot is first ancient Egyptian to undergo whole genome analysis
ByIan Sample Science editor July 2, 2025

Unusual burial of man, thought to have been a potter, in sealed vessel may have helped DNA survive past four millenniaA man whose bones were shaped by a lifetime of hard labour more than 4,500 years ago has become the first ancient Egyptian to have his…

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Conquering Soccer and Arming Warlords
ByDeclan Walsh and Tariq Panja June 29, 2025June 29, 2025

The Emirati vice president is best known as the owner of Manchester City, a top English soccer team. Behind the scenes, he has been described as the “handler” guiding his country’s secret foreign wars.

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Rwanda and Congo Sign U.S.-Brokered Peace Treaty
ByEdward Wong, Ruth Maclean and Zolan Kanno-Youngs June 27, 2025June 27, 2025

President Trump claims credit for the outcome. The main question now is how the treaty will be implemented as fighting still rages in eastern Congo.

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Inside the Global Deal-Making Behind Trump’s Mass Deportations
ByEdward Wong, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Hamed Aleaziz and Minho Kim June 25, 2025

The administration is pushing nations around the world, including ones at war, to take people expelled by the U.S. government who are not citizens of those countries.

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Inside the Global Deal-Making Behind Trump’s Mass Deportations
ByEdward Wong, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Hamed Aleaziz and Minho Kim June 25, 2025June 26, 2025

The administration is pushing nations around the world, including ones at war, to take people expelled by the U.S. government who are not citizens of those countries.

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WHO says attack on Sudanese hospital killed more than 40 civilians
ByRachel Savage June 24, 2025

Five health workers reportedly among the dead in West Kordofan as paramilitary RSF blames Sudanese militaryThe head of the World Health Organization has condemned an attack on a hospital in Sudan that he said had killed more than 40 civilians, as the c…

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Sudan, Remember Us review – vividness and vibrancy in intense account of Khartoum uprising
ByPeter Bradshaw June 24, 2025

Hind Meddeb’s documentary draws on her on-the-spot experience in 2019 as protesters rose against the 30-year rule of Omar al-BashirFranco-Tunisian-Moroccan film-maker Hind Meddeb is based in Paris but it was her on-the-spot experience in Khartoum in 20…

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Sudan, Remember Us review – vividness and vibrancy in intense account of Khartoum uprising
ByPeter Bradshaw June 24, 2025

Hind Meddeb’s documentary draws on her on-the-spot experience in 2019 as protesters rose against the 30-year rule of Omar al-BashirFranco-Tunisian-Moroccan film-maker Hind Meddeb is based in Paris but it was her on-the-spot experience in Khartoum in 20…

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