In a key test for the Iraqi government, the first elections are held since US troops left the country. Next, the ongoing violence in Syria takes its toll on the country’s rich cultural heritage. Finally, we meet the Yemenis who refuse to give up the search for their loved ones who vanished during the rule of Ali Abdullah Saleh.
This show is made up entirely of amateur images. We've seen time and time again how images captured by ordinary citizens then uploaded onto the Web can change history, or at least shift the balance of power. This week, we take a look back at some of those moments.
Yemen on Monday is set to launch a UN-backed national dialogue to draft a new constitution and prepare elections, in a move aimed at healing divisions two years after a revolution ended the three decade-long rule of Ali Abdullah Saleh.
This show is made up entirely of amateur images. We've seen time and time again how images captured by ordinary citizens then uploaded onto the Web can change history, or at least shift the balance of power. This week, we take a look back at some of those moments.
The Yemeni photographer, Boushra Almutawakel examines the world of gender and religion through her work. France 24’s culture critic Virginie Herz tells us more in today’s show.
This week we meet former Syrian state journalists who have defected to France. Then to Yemen, where Al Qaeda fighters were driven out of a city by government forces. Now it's home to destruction and terror. Finally we take a different look at life in the Middle East, through the lenses of contemporary photographers from the region.
This show is made up entirely of amateur images. We've seen time and time again how images captured by ordinary citizens then uploaded onto the Web can change history, or at least shift the balance of power. This week, we take a look back at some of those moments.
Christophe Robeet speaks to Tawakkol Karman during the first edition of the World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg. The young icon of the Yemeni uprising criticises the world’s weak response to the Syrian crisis and says she dreams of the day Bashar al-Assad will be brought before the ICC. She also explains why Yemen has become a better place since Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to relinquish power.
Now that the media storm over an anti-Islam video produced in the US has finally abated, François Picard asks Gilles Kepel, a leading scholar on the Islamic and Arab world, about the long-term impact the film could have in the Arab and Muslim world.
Angry demonstrations at an anti-Islam film escalated across the Muslim world on Friday, as protesters smashed into the German and British embassies in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum and stormed the US embassy in Tunis.
