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Family friend, sources in Russia and Syria, and leaked data help give rare insight into life of dictator’s reclusive household

Three young people step boldly into their adult lives in this elegantly narrated novel from the Nobel laureate

The Nobel laureate’s wonderful new novel connects a trio of east African teens as they come of age, moving from small-scale dramas to wide-ranging social panoramas

I’ve just finished a story about a man who has everything,” says Karim, the ostensible hero of Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 11th novel, set in 1990s Tanzania. “How do you think the story will end?” he asks Badar, his mother’s servant boy, in a cruel taunt disguised as a…

With the rise of language learning apps, the Wolof Academy is stepping up to meet the demand by offering online courses and virtual classes of Wolof, the language spoken by almost 80 percent of Senegal's population.

The Aga Khan IV has been laid to rest in Egypt in a private ceremony

4/5 There are terrific performances, puppets and plenty of shagging in this adaptation of Hanif Kureishi’s novel

Thousands rally in Washington, DC, to call for end to Gaza war and rebuke the Israeli prime minister as ‘war criminal’.

The death of a Christian political leader has sparked a wave of vigilante attacks on Syrians, fuelled by political scapegoating