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    Overcoming IS terror with books

    Dr Alaa Hamdon is on a mission to rebuild a library destroyed by the Islamic State group

  2. My Mormon mum, my gay rights hero

    Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black’s mum inspired him to fight for marriage equality

  3. The child who saved my life – and vanished

    The story of an 11-year-old Iraqi girl and the man whose life she inadvertently saved

  4. Becoming a star: the busker with albinism

    Lazarus Chigwandali went from performing on the streets of Malawi to working with Madonna

  5. The man who stole the president's secrets

    One writer risked prison to leak material about Uzbekistan's authoritarian former leader

  6. My dad the unlikely meth dealer

    James Lubbock watched his dad transform from clean-living family man to major drug-dealer

  7. The failed escape and the ‘stolen’ son

    After a disastrous effort to flee East Germany, Andreas Laake was set on finding his son

  8. The online post designed to ruin my life

    How a scandalous lie made Monika Glennon fight back against anonymous internet trolls

  9. The war in Iraq and the war inside my head

    US marine Zach Skiles reluctantly took part in the invasion of Iraq

  10. The laws of love

    Jim Obergefell fought for the legalisation of same sex marriage in the USA.

  11. Raising my baby in a Thai prison

    A Miss South Africa contestant jailed in Thailand, facing the death penalty and pregnant

  12. Born the wrong colour - so I had to die

    A South African woman who discovered a letter that revealed the shame around her birth

  13. Risking it all to save a stranger

    The undocumented migrant and Joburg's viral river rescue

  14. The secrets of a Soweto chef’s success

    Fine dining chef Lesego Semenya is on a mission to kick snobbery out of Joburg’s kitchens

  15. The Cuban aristocrat with a revolutionary secret

    Natalia Bolivar, a rich socialite, used her high class status to help topple a dictator

  16. My dream of ballooning over Iraq

    Murtada al-Hachimi fought for years to organise a hot air balloon festival in Iraq

  17. My children were injected with HIV

    Jennifer Merry’s haemophiliac sons were infected by contaminated blood in a UK hospital

  18. Why I wrote an apology to myself

    Playwright Eve Ensler’s father abused her. Writing his apology has helped her find peace

  19. The amateur sleuth and the lost babies

    Historian Catherine Corless uncovered a national scandal in Ireland

  20. In bed with an assassin

    Photographer Jason P. Howe had a relationship with a Colombian woman with a dark secret

  21. How my jeans saved my life

    Arne Murke used a trick he saw on television to save himself from drowning

  22. The song that helped me grieve

    Music journalist Jayson Greene kept a grief journal after the death of his daughter

  23. Why an ex-jihadist embraced an Islamophobe

    The friendship between a former extremist and a reformed anti-Islamist protester

  24. Looking for the Liberian sister I left behind

    Civil war separated Helene Cooper from her sister. Years later she went back to find her

  25. The Welsh miner who made wrestling glamorous

    Exotic Adrian Street received abuse for his flamboyant outfits - but they made him a star

  26. Why I want combat armour made for women

    Battlefield lawyer Rebecca Lipe’s campaign for US servicewomen to have better body armour

  27. I’m more than my husband’s shameful crime

    Maddie Corman’s husband was caught with child abuse material. Why she stayed with him

  28. In love and under siege with a newborn

    Filmmaker Waad and her medic husband, Hamza, documented their life during the Syrian war

  29. How to give up

    Why extreme swimmer Beth French doesn’t regret giving up on her life’s ambition

  30. Interviewing Mumbai's Mafia Don

    Journalist Hussain Zaidi risked everything to document his city's criminal underworld

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