The World Bank should reconsider its mega dam project in Tajikistan
On December 17 the World Bank is set to vote on financing the Rogun mega dam project in Tajikistan. If ...
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Gaza’s libraries will rise for the ashes
I was five years old when I entered the Maghazi Library for the first time. My parents had just enrolled ...
With words they try to jail us: US universities are not citadels of freedom
Universities in the United States have been especially repressive over the past year. Several like Columbia University and New York University have redefined ...
Voluntary carbon market has failed the human rights test
One of the most salient decisions of last month’s climate summit in Baku was to create a new international carbon ...
Seeing Gaza from Berlin
“Now you have a big family that is always by your side,” my Palestinian friend Nathmi Abushedeq wrote to me ...
What the collapse of the Syrian regime says about the Arab region
On December 8, after a rapid offensive that lasted less than two weeks, Syrian opposition forces entered Damascus and declared ...
Ibn Khaldun’s asabiyya and Bashar al-Assad’s rapid downfall
On November 27, a coalition of armed opposition groups, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) began an offensive against government-held ...
Angola’s path to prosperity lies in its sun and soil, not its oil
As Angola seeks a sustainable future, it is evident that the nation’s long-term prosperity lies in its sun and soil ...
No, President Yoon’s attempted coup was not a desperate act of nostalgia
As always, the conventional wisdom is wrong. In the aftermath of the jarring events that rattled South Korea earlier this ...
Are we your perfect victims now?
It feels strange to grieve Chef Mahmoud. There is something about mourning a stranger that condemns their real self to ...
This year, Arab-American political power came to the fore
One of the major political developments in the United States that has gotten little attention in the wake of the Democrats’ ...
Israel and the ICC: A legal scholar’s response to The Washington Post
On November 24, The Washington Post’s editorial board published a piece in which it laid out its views on the arrest ...
Loving it: Populist on populist violence
I don’t know about you, but, recently, I have enjoyed watching an entertaining spasm of populist-on-populist violence. Perhaps “violence” is ...
It’s time to tax fossil fuels and shipped goods to fund climate resilience
A few days after the UN Climate Change Conference in Baku concluded, I reflected on the consequences of Hurricane Beryl ...
I am starving in Gaza and I don’t believe the world can’t do anything
For over a year now, my family and I have been displaced from northern Gaza to Deir el-Balah in the ...
Apartheid economy continues to haunt South Africa
On November 3, Lesedi Mulaudzi, a 10-year-old girl from Alexandra, a sprawling township in Johannesburg, South Africa, passed away from suspected ...
The West, the ICC, and ‘mtu wetu’ in Israel
The arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, issued by the International Criminal ...
The IMF and the World Bank must be abolished to save the planet
As yet another United Nations Climate Change Conference fails to produce a strong commitment to urgent climate action, the climate ...
Israel and its supporters cannot gaslight the law
It was expected that the issuance of arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...
In Gaza dreams die, but hope remains
“I can’t keep calm. I’ve been chosen for Chevening.” It’s a little blue poster that Chevening awardees like to be ...
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