The Battleground / 20 Feb 2023

Retro World

The Battleground’s Spring Books List

Protests and war belong together. Not because they reflect each other but because conflict stirs the pot. Not just about itself but everything else.(...)
Women in front. Beirut, November 2019.
Raz Mesinai / 09 Sep 2020

This is What Lebanon Sounds Like

Capturing the October Revolution

Clanging pots, banging cans, all playing in unison. You'd be forgiven for thinking this was a concert, not a demonstration. But, this was Beirut, at the start of the October Revolution and these were demonstrators blurring the line between music and politics. (...)
Finsbury Mosque Attack memorial. London, June 2017.
Josh White / 16 Sep 2019

Right to Remain

North London for Everyone

Haringey Green Lanes is not a long way from Westminster. It’s less than an hour's drive. But it might as well take several hours.(...)

Mitchell Plitnick / 17 Jun 2019

Trump Against Iran

Europe in Crisis

The image of an oil tanker burning in the Gulf of Oman is a stern warning of the potential for war in the Middle East, as tensions continue to rise between the United States and Iran.(...)