Megan O'Toole

Halifax, Canada - Jouhayna Fadel and her family stayed as long as they could in their hometown of Daraa, the birthplace of Syria’s revolution.But after narrowly escaping an air strike that destroyed their modest, two-bedroom home in 2013, Fadel, a married mother of five, knew it was time to leave. The house burned to the ground with everything they owned inside.“All I was thinking about was how did we survive this, and how are we going to start from zero?” she said.

With no sign of a political plan for the conflict, the economic workshop in Bahrain will achieve little, analysts say

In 2012, a United Nations report painted a bleak picture of the Gaza Strip and the conditions facing its Palestinian inhabitants. Its economy was sluggish, its healthcare system beleaguered and its natural resources dwindling. But darker days were to come, the UN predicted.

Trump stands accused of partial culpability for Iran's downing of a passenger aircraft carrying dozens of Canadians. How will Trudeau respond?

On 17 December 2010, Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi, humiliated by years of police harassment, set himself on fire in the city of Sidi Bouzid - a solitary act of protest that sparked a wave of anti-authoritarian uprisings across the region.

New book highlights perception gap between western media and their crucial reporting partners in the Global South