Cairo was named Monday as the most dangerous megacity for women by an international poll, with women’s rights experts saying the treatment of women in the...
Marcie Rogo didn’t see herself as a matchmaker when she started a website to help lonely over-50s find companionship, after watching residents in the nursing...
The husband of a British-Iranian woman detained in Iran on Wednesday led a protest in London demanding the release of his wife and another British citizen...
In Somalia's Raqayle village, life under al-Shabaab Islamists can be brutal, with public beheadings, and bizarre - with edicts about wearing socks - but...
Women in the Middle East and North Africa are better educated than ever before, but legal and social barriers are hampering their access to jobs and careers,...
From a jaded TV chat show host to a Mideastern actress who longs to be cast as a ghostbuster, not endless jihadi brides, the stories in Sabrina Mahfouz’s...
It was a lucky haircut that opened the doors of Iraq to Father Patrick Desbois.
Despite being widely hailed as a turning point in the global fight to end modern slavery, a new estimate of the number of people living as slaves worldwide...
Ride-sharing apps, carmakers, and driving schools are targeting their newest market – Saudi Arabian women – wasting no time after the kingdom lifted its ban...
Adjida kicked and screamed when the rough and dirty hands of the masked soldier moved up her legs and ripped off her clothes
An Iranian-British woman serving a five-year prison sentence in Iran for plotting the "soft toppling" of its government while traveling with her toddler...
Conflict can be long, slow and boring. Especially for the civilians stuck in its midst, living a half-life that is neither full war nor genuine peace.
When she was 14, Lilit Martirosyan decided she wanted to start earning money for herself. But finding a normal job was complicated - employers didn't like the...
A Syrian girl, whose tweets from war-torn Aleppo captured a worldwide audience, has written a harrowing memoir of life under siege, recalling her terror of...
In the United Arab Emirates and some other sweltering parts of the Middle East, summer temperatures can hit 45 degrees Celsius, with brutal humidity making...
As global warming intensifies droughts and floods, causing crop failures in many parts of the world, Canada may see something different: a farming expansion.
Better known for their taste, hummus and baba ganoush might also be good for conflict resolution - or at least that's the hope of a pop-up restaurant in...
When wildfires surrounded his family-run farm in northeast Spain four years ago, all that Pau Figueras Mundo could do was watch, helplessly, as the flames...
More than 40 million people were trapped as slaves last year in forced labor and forced marriages, almost three quarters of them women and girls, according to...
In a bright yellow cloth shirt, arms outstretched and adorned with bangles, the image of Shaney Blackman towering over 6 meters tall on a wall in east London...