Photo Essays
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India and Bangladesh under water
Heavy rains and storms are causing huge floods and high water in both countries. Tens of thousands of people have had to leave their homes so far. By Ulrike Schulze
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Afghanistan in free fall
Since the Taliban took power, Afghanistan has been isolated internationally, and the situation in the country is deteriorating: Almost half the population is starving, and the regime continues to restrict women's rights. By Philipp Boell
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Mourning Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
For over 25 years, Shireen Abu Akleh reported from the Palestinian territories and Israel. Last week she was killed covering an Israeli military operation. She was a trailblazer in Arab media. By Jan D. Walter
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Sri Lanka – the hard life of Negombo's fishermen
Sri Lanka's worst financial crisis since 1948 is bringing many fishermen to the brink of destitution, even though they themselves contribute to feeding the country's people and export fish to a dozen countries. By Claudia Dehn
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Muslims celebrate Eid ul-Fitr
The end of Ramadan 2023 has seen Muslims worldwide gearing up for the festival of Eid ul-Fitr, which takes place this year on 21 and 22 April. By Sonia Phalnikar
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Chefchaouen: Morocco's 'Blue Pearl'
Nestled in the Rif Mountains of northwest Morocco, Chefchaouen – where Jews, Amazigh and Arabs settled to impart a unique blend of cultural identity – seems lost in a maze of myriad shades of blue. By Sugato Mukherjee
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Young feminism in Bangladesh: What does feminism mean to you?
Which topics really matter to Generation X and young millennials? Seven women and a man, participants in a DW Academy/Goethe-Institut Bangladesh project, explain what feminism means to them. By Author: Priya Esselborn and Nina Molter
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Syria's Ramadan drummers defiant as tradition wanes
El Musaharati is the name given to the person who walks and beats a drum in residential areas during Ramadan to wake people up to eat their pre-fast suhur before morning prayers. Yet, today, this ancient practice is in decline.
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'The Game': The perilous trek of refugees from Bosnia to the EU
With spring, migration on the Balkan route is on the rise again – and with it the misery, violence and illegal pushbacks at Croatia's external EU border. By Dirk Planert
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Iran’s disappearing wetlands
Over the past 20 years, global warming and climate change have been blamed for the deteriorating condition of Iran's wetlands, seasonal lakes and lagoons. Evidence from the Miqan wetland indicates, however, that mismanagement has been the primary cause of Iran's marshes drying out