Photo Essays

In Bangladesh around 4.5 million children are working under hazardous conditions. Some 1.7 million of them live and work in the capital, Dhaka. DW correspondent Mustafiz Mamun has captured their every day lives on film.

French officials have called for a buffer zone to be cleared between a road leading to the Eurotunnel and the ″Jungle″ refugee camp, causing residents to scramble to save their dwellings. By Diego Cupolo

The Algerian city of Constantine still bears traces left behind by the Romans, Ottomans and the French. It has long been a centre of religious and intellectual study. Despite this, the historical old city has fallen into decay. A visit to the Arabic Capital of Culture 2015. By Jakob Krais

One of the cradles of civilisation, with a centuries-old reputation for tolerance and multi-ethnicity, the Turkish town of Mardin is situated in an area that once belonged to Mesopotamia. Now the Kurdish conflict and the Syrian civil war just across the border are putting its tradition of openness to the test.

Between 1909 and 1912, photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii was commissioned to conduct a photographic survey of the Russian Empire by Tsar Nicholas II. Using a special camera he captured three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters. These were later overlaid and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true colour images. These photographs pre-date both the Russian Revolution and the First World War. Take a step back in time and see what life was like for Muslims more than a century ago with these photos made available by the Library of Congress, which purchased the original glass plates back in 1948.

Many long-established Arab rulers were toppled during the Arab Spring in 2011. But not all of them: the Sultan of Oman has been head of the Gulf state for forty years – and is as popular as ever. By Anne Allmeling

On the heels of the terror attacks in Paris, a number of artists have been taking pen in hand to express their view of the events. One frequently represented motif is the Eiffel Tower as a symbol of peace. By Sabine Oelze

In Istanbul, there are almost as many Syrian refugees as in whole Europe. Many of them feel stuck in the Turkish city, between the violence present in their homeland and the dream of getting to Europe.

For a long time Zaha Hadid's designs were considered impossible to build - until she proved the opposite. The Iraqi-born British national, who will be remembered for her daringly futuristic architecture, died suddenly on 31 March, aged 65.

The Nubians, inhabiting a 700 mile stretch of Nilotic villages between Egypt and Sudan since the days of the Pharaohs, have been around for the most of Egypt's long history. Until the construction of the High Dam in 1964, their lives were determined by the ebb and flow of this ancient river. Subsequently some 50,000 Nubians from 45 towns were forcibly relocated to ″New Nubia″, a vast concrete housing development far from any arable land. This catastrophic loss of land heightened the already common migratory trend of men going abroad for employment and changed the community for good. Text and photos by Maya Hautefeuille