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Mustafa Marie Moses’ Pharaoh has raised controversy among many researchers throughout history. Many believe he is Ramses II, while others believe he is Seti I. Recently, an initiative called “My Colorful Past” was launched. It uses the technology of facial recognition to reconstruct people’s faces. This project reconstructed the face …

AI might seem neutral and technical, but it poses a differential challenge to female jobs and can be imbued with insidious gender biases. Juliane Bir Digitalisation is encroaching further and further into all our lives in ways of which we are scarcely aware. Algorithms and artificial intelligence guide a vast range of society’s choices …

US history seems to be repeating itself in the horrific death of African American George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer. Hany Ghoraba Scenes emerging from the US states of Minnesota, California and many others of riots and violent protests, are dominating the news despite the prevailing …

Amid the accelerated scientific quest for a vaccine against the coronavirus, crucial ethical and social questions have not yet been addressed. Stuart Blume and Maurizia Mezza Each day brings reports of progress toward a coronavirus vaccine. As millions struggle with separation, loss of income, isolation and fear for vulnerable loved ones, …

Years of pre-crisis adhesion to ‘new public management’ in health policy have seen public provision eroded. Now is an opportunity to change course. Tamara Popic Governments across Europe have introduced series of health-policy measures to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. These have sought primarily to limit the spread of the virus …

Celebrations to mark the end of World War II in Europe were subdued this year by the spread of the Covid-19. Hany Ghoraba There has never been a larger historical event that affected the lives of millions and caused larger numbers of casualties and destruction than World War II. It …

Efforts to attack multinationals’ tax avoidance at EU level fall foul of national beneficiaries. Time to try naming and shaming instead. Francesco Saraceno and Tommaso Faccio The Netherlands’ insistence that everyone ‘go Dutch’ on mushrooming coronavirus deficits in the European Union has, given its complicity, revived the debate on tax …

Courts across the region are stepping up their use of online technology to keep the wheels of justice turning during the Covid-19 crisis with lessons for the Egyptian judicial system. Salma el-Nashar As a result of the coronavirus crisis that has hit the world causing a humanitarian disaster, many thousands …

In a nightmare-scenario ‘Brexit’ denouement, the UK government provokes no-deal chaos from which it hopes to profit after its Covid-19 shambles. Paul Mason For Boris Johnson, the year that was supposed to be focused on ‘Brexit’ has turned into a year that’s focused on death. To be exact, 50,000 excess deaths and …

The expansion of free time during the crisis could lead to a reassessment of leisure and a revalorised public sphere. Çiğdem Boz and Ayça Tekin-Koru The Covid-19 crisis has engendered an unparalleled self-evaluation of time. As more and more found themselves confined to their homes, an unprecedented effort to fill …