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    The best of the long read in 2025

    ByMiddle East and north Africa | The Guardian December 23, 2025

    Our 20 favourite pieces of in-depth reporting, essays and profiles from the yearVictor Pelevin made his name in 90s Russia with scathing satires of authoritarianism. But while his literary peers have faced censorship and fled the country, he still sell…

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    Zipora Whyman obituary

    ByNiva Whyman November 25, 2025

    My mother, Zipora Whyman, who has died aged 86, was always so full of life and radiated goodness. Whether dedicating herself to her family or spending time with friends, she was forever busy – creating works of art, gardening artistically and cooking h…

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    ‘For the women who gave birth in the dark’: a portrait of motherhood in Gaza

    ByAseel Mousa November 8, 2025

    Diana Shams wrote a book because ‘no one explains how to carry your baby through fire, hunger and fear – and still sing to her at bedtime’She used to worry about screen time. She used to fret over sugar. She used to dwell on what cartoon character migh…

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    A plea for compassion to counter blind hatred over Israel and Gaza | Letters

    ByGuardian staff October 10, 2025

    A reader is heartened by Sharone Lifschitz’s article about the second anniversary of 7 October and her parents’ kidnapping by HamasIt was cathartic to read Sharone Lifschitz’s opinions and know that there are others in my position in terms of mentality…

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    When I was married at 13 I was told refusal would end in my death. Now girls in Iraq as young as nine face the same fate

    ByShams Ali* September 25, 2025

    A new law legitimises violence and entrenches control over the bodies of millions of women and girls like meI was about 13 when my family decided to marry me off to a man of 29. I cried, I resisted. The pain was doubled because even at that age I was a…

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    When I was married at 13 I was told refusal would end in my death. Now girls in Iraq as young as nine face the same fate

    ByShams Ali* September 25, 2025

    A new law legitimises violence and entrenches control over the bodies of millions of women and girls like meI was about 13 when my family decided to marry me off to a man of 29. I cried, I resisted. The pain was doubled because even at that age I was a…

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    ‘I watched the bombs fall. I watched the mothers’: how do we grieve the children of Gaza?

    ByHala Alyan September 3, 2025

    Palestine is not a metaphor. And yet – I’ve superimposed every experience of my own mothering these last months on to PalestineThe last time I carried a life, I got to hear her heartbeat exactly three times before it stopped. It was my fifth pregnancy….

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    From dentist to artist: Sudanese exile turns to photography as an outlet for trauma

    ByKaamil Ahmed August 11, 2025

    Hashim Nasr’s striking images are winning awards and gaining attention across the globe‘For me, red is always a representation of blood and losing people, so I tend to use this red fabric to represent our trauma.” The Sudanese photographer Hashim Nasr …

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    From dentist to artist: Sudanese exile turns to photography as an outlet for trauma

    ByKaamil Ahmed August 11, 2025

    Hashim Nasr’s striking images are winning awards and gaining attention across the globe‘For me, red is always a representation of blood and losing people, so I tend to use this red fabric to represent our trauma.” The Sudanese photographer Hashim Nasr …

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