Middle East 4 ChangeThe Syrian War in Five Sieges
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
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…
Localisation: A strategic solution to globalised authoritarianism
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
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…
Women are at the forefront of challenging extremism in Idlib
Friday, July 6, 2018
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,…
One Question: The future of Gaza
Thursday, July 5, 2018
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…
Prisoners of a Vision: Dissidents in Sisi’s Egypt
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
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…
Erdogan has used same techniques as Trump to de-democratize Turkey
Monday, June 25, 2018
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…
The Ever-Shrinking Space for Hazara Ethnic Group
Sunday, June 24, 2018
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…
Istanbul’s Gezi Park: how did visual communication between protesters help create a movement?
Sunday, June 24, 2018
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…
Israel: No such thing as socialist Zionism
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
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…
Siege and resistance in Gaza: an interview with Toufic Haddad
Sunday, June 17, 2018
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…
The International Community Should Not Stand by as Israel Abuses Palestinians
Friday, June 15, 2018
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’…
The Great Return March and the Women of Gaza
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Fadi Abu Shammalah and Jen Marlowe Posted on Znet on June 13, 2018 from TomDispach on June 12, 2018 “I am here because I heard my town call…
Yazidi women: in defense of human rights sympathy is not enough
Monday, June 4, 2018
Richard Falk. Posted Richard Falk June 1 2018. Ten days ago, while attending the opening ceremony of a conference in Vienna commemorating the 25thanniversary of the Vienna Declaration…
Erdoğan’s ‘new’ Turkey: Purges and Paranoia
Saturday, June 2, 2018
Ella George. Published by London Review of Books Vol. 40 No. 10 · 24 May 2018 The elections due to be held on 24 June, brought forward abruptly…
The Two-State Solution: An Autopsy
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Henry Siegman. Published by London Review of Books Vol. 40 No. 10 · 24 May 2018 During the latest outbreak of violence in Gaza, Israeli security forces, using…
Syria is not exceptional: interview with Joseph Daher | Part 1
Friday, May 25, 2018
Joe Hayns. Posted on Revolutionary Socialism April 27, 2018. Last summer, in Rabat, a friend explained the Syrian families begging from the passing crowds, five minutes from Parliament,…
The Syrian Revolution and the Emancipation of Palestinians and Kurds: Interview with Joseph Daher
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Joseph Daher and Ela Liberta. Posted on Alliance of Middle East Socialists May 19, 2018. Below, we reprint an interview which the Greek socialist collective Ela Liberta conducted…
“There is a consensus. The proximate cause of the horror in Gaza is the Israeli blockade. It is not Hamas”
Sunday, May 20, 2018
Norman Finkelstein. Posted on Democracy now facebook Norman Finklestein on the Gaza blockade. Norman Finkelstein on Gaza blockade Norman Finkelstein: "There is a consensus. The proximate cause of…
The Two-State Solution: An Autopsy
Saturday, May 19, 2018
Henry Siegman. Published in London Review of Books volume 40 number 10. During the latest outbreak of violence in Gaza, Israeli security forces, using high-powered rifles and live…
Israel and Gaza: Policy of Kill and Kill and Kill
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Saree Makdisi. Posted on Counterpunch May 16, 2018. Two spectacles unfolded in Palestine on Monday. In Gaza, Israeli army snipers shot and killed 58 Palestinians—including six children—and injured…
Israel repurposes Nakba myths to justify today’s massacre in Gaza
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Jonathan Cook. Posted on ZCommunications 15th May 2018. On Monday and Tuesday, Palestinians commemorate the anniversary of the Nakba, or catastrophe, their mass expulsion and dispossession 70 years…
Can Palestinians be Killed? Can Israelis Kill them? Or do they only “Die”?
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Julian Cole. Posted on Informed Comment 15th May 2018. Social media is being scathing about the diction chosen by the New York Times, CNN and even the Guardian…
It’s the People, Stupid: Debunking the Myths on Protests in Armenia
Friday, May 4, 2018
Asbed Kotchikian. Posted on Hetq April 19, 2018. Since April 13, 2018 protesters in Armenia’s capital Yerevan have been gathering in public spaces, barricading roads and demonstrating against…
Turkey: Erdoğan’s Cesspit
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Daniel Finn. Editorial in New Left Review number 107. For the gatekeepers of established wisdom in the West, the rise of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) was…
Writing about Violence: A Joint Reflection from Latin America and the Middle East
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Hiba Bou Akar , Roosbelinda Cárdenas This is a shortened version of an article that first appeared on MER284 This essay reflects on some of the challenges of…
The Southern Transitional Council and the War in Yemen: Consolidating Power in the Unified Southern Territories
Monday, April 30, 2018
Susanne Dahlgren Published MERIP April 26, 2018 In late January this year, an armed conflict erupted in Aden between troops under command of President ‘Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi…
Gaza’s “Great March of Return”: an international rallying call for peace and justice
Saturday, April 28, 2018
Stephen McCloskey. Posted on Open Democracy 26, April 2018. In 2015, a Guardian editorial said that “The right of assembly in a public place is truly one of…
Seven years after: what is next for Syria?
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Syrian playwright Mohammad Al Attar moderates a panel on seven years of the Syrian revolution featuring the great Yassin al-Haj Saleh, Thomas Pierret and Kristin Helberg. The 18th…
Israel: The Struggle of Refugees and Palestinians is One
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Yehuda Stern. Posted on Left Voice April 12, 2018. There have been two important developments these past weeks in Palestine. The first began on March 30 in Gaza,…
Asifa, My Child: a poem by Bardi Raina
Monday, April 16, 2018
Badri Raina. Posted on ZNet on April 14, 2018. Asifa, my child, I wish I was not writing about you But holding you to my chest. Asifa, I…