Can a ceasefire end settler colonial genocide?
The ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel is, first and foremost, a welcome relief for the Palestinians in Gaza who ...
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Searching for hope in Syria
Bashar al-Assad is gone, and Syria is finally free. However, I am unable to fully rejoice in the long-awaited fall ...
Trump versus the Gulf of Mexico
This month during a rambling news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate, United States President-elect Donald Trump announced his latest vision ...
Four words that bear significance to the happy news of a Gaza ceasefire
I have wrestled with what to say in this urgent moment, long yearned for and that often appeared beyond reach ...
Tunisia’s revolution 14 years on: ‘The emperor has no clothes’
Fourteen years ago, on January 14, 2011, Tunisians filled Habib Bourguiba Boulevard, the central thoroughfare of Tunis, with cries of ...
Why I won’t stop telling Gaza’s stories
There is a look I have come to recognise – the way a child’s eyes widen when they see me, ...
The short shelf life of corporate DEI
Over the last few days and months, a slew of United States corporations, including Amazon, McDonald’s, Walmart, Ford, John Deere ...
Syria does not need a ‘handshake litmus test’
On January 3, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot travelled to Damascus to meet with ...
Trump 2.0 can open the door for a greener world
Last year was disastrous for the environment and climate change action. United Nations-backed talks to tackle biodiversity, plastic pollution desertification ...
The UN can end the Middle East conflict by welcoming Palestine as a member
The UN, on its 80th birthday in 2025, can mark the occasion by securing a lasting solution to the conflict ...
No, Sri Lanka’s Tamil question has not been resolved
“They’re trampling on our graves with their boots,” said Kavitha, a young Tamil woman, as the torrential rain lashing our ...
A disturbing pattern of repression is emerging in Europe
In November, the Dutch political elite overwhelmingly sided with Israeli football fans after they went on a rampage in Amsterdam ...
No food, no sleep, no hope in Gaza
I have spent a total of four years in Gaza, six months of them during the ongoing war. I have ...
At the EU’s external border in Bulgaria, the refugee horror story continues
“She was about to die. It took six hours last time we dug a grave for one of the Syrian ...
Where I find hope amid the hurt and heartache
This is the season of renewal. One year ends. Another begins. At the turn of the calendar, it is customary ...
Silence on Israel’s massacres of journalists is dangerous to all
A December 26 press statement by the Israeli army attempted to justify a war crime. It unabashedly admitted that the ...
PA’s brutal siege on Jenin only deepens its crisis of legitimacy
On December 28, young journalism student Shatha Sabbagh stepped out of her house in the occupied West Bank city of ...
Donald Trump and the great Panama Canal tantrum
As he gears up to retake the presidency of the United States this month, Donald Trump has spontaneously begun threatening ...
Al-Shifa was a dream and a nightmare
When I started studying nursing at Al Azhar University, I knew I wanted to work at al-Shifa Hospital. It was ...
The pope is right about Israel and Gaza. This is cruelty, not war
Pope Francis is a paradoxical figure. Despite leading a church with a long, egregious history of being synonymous with strife, ...
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