What is the logic of ‘Value for Money’ in development sector, and could it force foreign aid agencies to choose between irrelevance and subterfuge?

Renowned Egyptian novelist and feminist Nawal El Saadawi attacks a culture of sexual aggression against the girl and young woman in this extract from The Hidden Face of Eve

Zed talks with Kehinde Andrews, author of Back to Black, on the need to retell and reclaim Black radicalism for the 21st Century.

Zed talks with former ambassador Sinead Walsh and Dr Oliver Johnson OBE, authors of Getting to Zero, on their experiences managing the response to the West Africa Ebola crisis.

Did you know that there are thousands of Palestinian men, women and children working on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, on land that was once theirs?

The difference between LGBT+ and queer has something to do with ‘normativity’, right? Mimi Marinucci explains in five paragraphs. 

Queer Asia | Essay Prize, Winner | Imagine studying queers in a country where homosexuals are charged not with sodomy but with “falling into capitalism”, where cuddling and groping a same-sex soldier in the cold is not same-sex intimacy but “revolutionary comradeship”. How should we study queerness when it’s invisible?

‘Charlie Hebdo’ took shape because forms of ventriloquism and projection were inevitable in a context where a tiny proportion of participants in the communicative event had any relationship with Charlie Hebdo as an actual publication.

An emerging Black middle class and political representation cannot change the nature of a racist society. Even a Black man in the White house could do nothing to reverse the tide of racial oppression. – Kehinde Andrews talks Black Radicalism.