‘don’t call me a hero’

Rania, a mother of three from Ramallah in the West Bank, farms in the shadow of the separation wall. Her small plot of courgettes, cucumbers, mint and parsley is the family’s only source of income – w

OVER THE PAST 12 YEARS, the small family-health clinic in Melmastok, a remote mountainous community in Afghanistan’s central Daikundi province, has withstood multiple upheavals—from a Taliban insurgen

Yaakov Katz

Zoologist, writer, TV presenter – Dr Sasha Norris has had a glittering career in academia and the media since she graduated from the University of Bristol more than 30 years ago. Yet today she’s kneel

Dr Jarek, W hen I came to ...

There is a type of landmine that springs into the air before detonating, high enough for the deadly arc of shrapnel to reach the vital organs. The idea isn’t new—Germany produced almost two million “B