Middle East 4 ChangeFunding crisis threatens Palestinian refugee agency
Monday, November 30, 2020
Sharmila Devi UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East says that a $300 million shortfall is threatening health services. The UN Relief and…
Victim of Zionist colonisation: Book Review
Sunday, June 28, 2020
Moshé Machover Rashid Khalidi ‘The hundred-years war on Palestine: a history of settler-colonial conquest and resistance’ Profile Books, 2020, pp336, £17.99 As part of their professional training, historians…
Coronavirus in the Middle East: A perfect storm
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Marco Carnelos The impacts of coronavirus have been tremendous everywhere, but in the Middle East, the situation seems to be assuming the features of a perfect storm. In…
My Beit Daras, My Nakba
Monday, May 18, 2020
Romana Rubeo My Beit Daras, My Nakba: Two Palestinian Intellectuals Reminiscing about Their Destroyed Village Dr. Ghada Ageel and Dr. Ramzy Baroud have more in common than their…
Two impossibilities: Neither a one-state or two-state solution is feasible
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Moshé Machover It is generally accepted – except by people who know better – that there are just two possible resolutions to the Israeli-Palestinian national/colonial conflict: either a…
A Bold Reconceptualization of the Compulsory 1923 Greco-Turkish Exchange of Populations
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Elektra Kostopoulou. Humanism in Ruins: Entangled Legacies of the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange. by Aslı Iğsız. Stanford University Press 2018. At the start of 2019, almost eighty million people…
Libya’s Incoming Strongman Haftar Will Send The Oil Out To Europe – And Keep Its Migrants In
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Vijay Prashad. The West and the Gulf Arabs have condemned Libya to the strongman. You can well imagine the tension when Libya’s beleaguered Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj met…
How the Assad regime has exploited “evacuation deals” to redirect Isis against the rebels
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Omar Sabbour. In September 2018, when the Assad regime was preparing to launch its (now on-hold) offensive against rebel-held Idlib in northern Syria, a rather surprising report emerged in the…
Books on Middle East 2018 – tales of repression, ruse and resistance
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East. David Kirkpatrick, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. From 2011 to 2015, David Kirkpatrick was the…
Engaging Books Series: Pluto Press Selections on Radical Politics
Friday, November 23, 2018
ENGAGING BOOKS SERIES Pluto Press Selections On Radical Politics Engaging Books is a new series that features books by various publishers on a given theme, along with an…
Climate Change and Its Staggering Refugee Crisis: Book Review
Sunday, November 4, 2018
Todd Miller. Research confirms that massive migration, into the millions, will be an inevitable consequence of global warming. Before 2005, when Oxford ecologist Norman Myers announced that there…
The Real Reasons Behind Washington’s War on Palestinian Refugees
Sunday, October 14, 2018
Ramzy Baroud. The US government’s decision to slash funds provided to the United Nations agency that cares for Palestinian refugees, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), is…
Gunshot Gaza: hospitals struggle to treat surge in firearms injuries
Monday, August 20, 2018
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…
Queens of Syria: Voices of the dispossessed
Monday, July 30, 2018
Tanushka Marah. Posted Middle East Eye July 24, 2018. Performed by 14 Syrian women who have fled their homeland, Queens of Syria is a theatrical adaptation of Euripides…
US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee approves the Israel Anti-Boycott Act
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Amjad Iraqi. Posted on London Review of Books Vol. 40 No. 14 · 19 July 2018. Late last month, the US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee approved…
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…
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…
Spirit of the Orchard: A Palestinian Story
Monday, May 14, 2018
Ramzy Baroud. Posted on Toward Freedom May 10, 2018. Spanning decades and encompassing war, mass exodus, epic migrations and the search for individual and collective identity, The Last…
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…
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,…
Calling on world conscience
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Hamza Abu Eltarabesh. Posted on Electronic Intifada April 7, 2108. Much has already been written and said about the bloody events of the first Great March of Return…
Bread, water and roses: The guerrillas of Shengal (Sinjar)
Sunday, April 8, 2018
Marcel Cartier. Posted on The Region on April 4, 2018. Powerful, sobering and heart-wrenching images are once again to be seen from the Yazidi heartland of Shengal, otherwise…
Palestine: US smooths Israel’s path to annexing West Bank
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Jonathan Cook. Posted on ZCommunications on March 19, 2018. Seemingly unrelated events all point to a tectonic shift in which Israel has begun preparing the ground to annex…
Turkish War Planes Strike Northern Syria As Assad Continues Bombing South
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Ellen Frances. Posted on Huffington Post on March 17, 2018. BEIRUT, March 17 (Reuters) – Thousands of civilians streamed out of their towns on Saturday to escape battles…
ID card and the Dice Player: Two Poems by Mahmoud Darwish
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Mahmoud Darwish Posted on Resistance Words on June 15, 2017. Last year, Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman called his poems “fuel for terror attacks”. By that, he meant…
The Ossington Circle Episode 16: The Destruction of Syria and Solidarity with Max Ajl
Friday, December 8, 2017
Max Ajl and Justine Podur. Interview transcript posted on podur.org on April 29, 2017. In this episode of The Ossington Circle, academic, activist, and editor at Jadaliyya Max…
How Israeli leftists trivialize the Palestinian cause
Sunday, December 3, 2017
Zena Tahhan. Posted on +972 on November 28, 2017. Ask any Palestinian on the street and they will tell you that the 1948 territories—those areas that now make…
How Palestinians can reverse Israel’s divide and conquer tactics
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Sam Bahour. Posted on +972 on September 5, 2017. Oslo allowed Israel to reduce Palestinians to disparate fragments, each with their own challenge to merely survive. It’s time…
As Yemen Cholera Cases Reach 500,000, US and UK Condemned for Complicity
Saturday, August 19, 2017
Jake Johnson, Published by Common Dreams on August 14, 21 The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday announced that the number of cholera cases in Yemen had reached…