Editor's note

President Donald Trump has issued a new executive order banning citizens of six Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for 90 days, and freezing all refugee admissions for the next 120.

What does this mean for the rest of the world? Layla Saleh writes that the ban confirms the hopelessness of the situation for the millions of people displaced by the Syrian conflict, while Bassem Hassan warns of the chilling effect it will have on science worldwide.

Megan Clement

Deputy Global Editor

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No end in sight for Syrian refugees banned under Trump's new travel order

Layla Saleh, Qatar University

Syrian refugees have been banned from the US for the next 120 days. Whatever happens next, the country they are fleeing will never be the same again.

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    Michael Shakib Bhatch, University of the Western Cape

    Something really magical is happening at the intersection between jazz and hip-hop at the moment. Many of the artists involved will be playing at Africa’s foremost jazz festival.