Lana Asfour is a senior journalist at al-Araby al-Jadeed English. She has written for the BBC, New Statesman, the Times, Observer, NYRB, Granta, OpenDemocracy, Al Jazeera English, the Daily Star Beirut, the London Magazine and Glamour, among others.
HIV rates in the Middle East and North Africa are the lowest in the world, but denial and complacency about the virus are leading to rates increasing more than anywhere else.
The British prime minister has promised tough laws to prevent citizens from supporting the Islamic State group, but human rights groups say such measures suggested will be illegal and unenforceable.
