Robert Fisk. Rarely can history have dictated that the blood of three beheaded daughters should be injected into a vein of hope. The operation, I suppose, was self-administered…
Omid Shams. Iran witnessed a nationwide strike by teachers on October 14-15. Iranian social media exploded with photos and videos of the teachers’ sit-ins at elementary and high…
Ramzy Baroud. When Israeli troops stormed the house of Palestinian parliamentarian and lawyer, Khalida Jarrar, on April 2, 2015, she was engrossed in her research. For months, Jarrar…
Esen Uslu. Almost two years ago, when the military challenged his rule by attempting a coup and were beaten back, president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan famously said: “It was…
Robin Yassin-Kassab. ‘A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution’ by novelist Samar Yazbek is part journalism, part personal memoir, and all literature. It’s literature of…
Nadia Murad. The slave market opened at night. We could hear the commotion downstairs where militants were registering and organising, and when the first man entered the room,…
Romy Roynard. The young Yazidi woman, the victim of horrific crimes, has spoken out worldwide in her campaign to end sexual assault as a weapon of war. Nadia…
Jonathan Cook. Posted on ZCommunications October 2, 2018. The moment long feared is fast approaching in Gaza, according to a new report by the World Bank. After a…
Esen Uslu. The Turkish army of the modern republican era has never withdrawn from any piece of land it has occupied on whatever pretext. A former British army…
Interview with Ardeshir Mehrdad. Mehdi Kia: In the first part of the interview[1]http://www.middleast4change.org/squeezing-iran-part-1-trumps-project-in-the-middle-east/we talked of the evolving line-ups in the Middle East in the backdrop of recent massive…
Rajan Menon. Posted on TomDispatch and CounterPunch September 20, 2018. It’s the war from hell, the savage one that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, along with…
Wladimir van Wilgenburg. Posted on Kurdistan24, September 12 2018. ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Iranian Kurdish shopkeepers on Wednesday began Rojhilat-wide (Iranian Kurdistan) strike against the executions of Kurdish…
Lindsey Hilsum. Broadcast on Channel 4 news, UK, September 10, 2018. A Look Inside MEK’s Secretive Camp In Albania Published on the Iranian
Adam Shatz. Posted on London Review of Books vol 40 no 16, August 30 2018. Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu by Anshel Pfeffer, Hurst, 423 pp,…
Nicholas Lalaguna. Posted on ZNet August 28, 2018. DURING the decades leading up to World War II, fascists around the world were very publicly supported by highly influential…
Stanley L Cohn. Posted on Counterpunch August 24, 2018. As old as war itself, collective punishment has long been the most damning and destructive weapon of all. Not…
Vijay Prashad. Posted on Counterpunch August 27, 2018. Standing on the campus of Birzeit University in Ramallah (Palestine) one gets a full flavour of the beauty of Palestine…
Jonathan Owen Published by BMJ August 10, 2018. New types of complex injuries in the Palestinian territory are leading to lifelong disabilities as prompt comprehensive care is beyond…
Marjorie Cohn. Posted on Truthout July 24, 2018. On July 19, 2018, the Israeli Knesset enacted a law that illegally enshrines a system of apartheid. The legislation, which has the…
Patrick Cockburn. Posted on London Review of Books Vol 40, July 19, 2018. The road to Raqqa, once the de facto Syrian capital of Islamic State, looks surprisingly…
Helena Norberg-Hodge. Posted on TNI Longreads. For those who care about peace, equality and the future of the planet, the global political swing to the right over the…
Leila Al Shami. Posted on Leila’s Blog July 5, 2108. This was originally published at Chatham House. Here is a longer, un-edited version. In May, SMART News Agency,…
Posted on State of Nature June 28, 2018. One Question is a monthly series in which we ask leading thinkers to give a brief answer to a single…
Tom Stevenson. Posted on LA Review of Books, June 27, 2018. ON JANUARY 31, 2017, four lawyers arrived at the steps of Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court on the…
Juan Cole. Posted on Informed Comment 25th June 2018. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, began his legitimate political career at the turn of this century with…
Rohullah Naderi. Posted on Counterpunch June 22, 2018. The hunger strike by Ms. Jalila Haider, a human rights attorney and founder of a nonprofit organization, “We the Human…
Olu Jenzen and Aidan McGarry. Posted on Open Democracy. This article is part of Right to Protest, a partnership project with human rights organisations CELS and INCLO, with support from…
Tony Greenstein. Published by Weekly Worker June 14, 2018 Gideon Levy is one of the few, lonely voices of sanity in an Israel that has veered towards the…
Posted on Red Flag June 4, 2018. For more than 10 weeks, Palestinians have gathered in protest every Friday at the Israeli-Gaza Strip buffer zone, located in the…
Ramzy Baroud. Posted on June 13, 2018. What is taking place in Palestine is not a ‘conflict’. We readily utilize the term but, in fact, the word ‘conflict’…
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