Why world powers are unlikely to start another great war
by Andrew Hammond The US mid-term elections occupied many of the political headlines last week, but another landmark event awaited Donald Trump as he headed to Europe at the weekend. […]
The true history of the Great War
On the anniversary of the end of the First World War, even photographs cannot speak of our true history Francois Bost, a war photographer, is being celebrated in a new exhibition […]
How colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war
The Great War is often depicted as an unexpected catastrophe. But for millions who had been living under imperialist rule, terror and degradation were nothing new. By Pankaj Mishra […]
I’m an imam, and I’ll be leading the Remembrance Sunday services for the Muslims who died fighting for our country
Historic records show that at least 885,000 Muslims were recruited from across the Muslim world to fight for the Allies, and over 89,000 are known to have been killed. Research found that only a fifth of people are aware that Muslim soldiers fought at all in the Great War Qari Muhammad […]