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Shortly prior to his death from prostate cancer in August of this year at the age of 72, my father emerged from a state of muteness…
Shortly prior to his death from prostate cancer in August of this year at the age of 72, my father emerged from a state of muteness…
“In Yemen, there is wisdom,” goes the medieval Arab saying. Remember that, if you’re trying to sort out how the Israel-Palestine confrontation in Gaza rattles the…
In 2019, not long before the Canadian province of Quebec moved to pass Bill 21, a law outlawing religious symbols in the public sector, I…
Some of Israel’s most prominent enablers now claim to abhor the scope of Israel’s wanton killing of Palestinians with a barrage of bullets, bombs, and…
In the field of the social sciences, it is very common to say “history repeats itself”. However, there is nothing inevitable about how political events…
It has been more than two months now since the Israeli authorities launched a war on Gaza in response to Hamas’s attack on its southern…
There have been a total of 28 United Nations Conference of Parties (COP) on the climate crisis to date, but only the last one, convened…
On December 9, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) held a summit in Djibouti to address the war in Sudan. The gathering which was meant…
After 12 years of civil war, hundreds of thousands of people killed and tens of thousands missing, a glimmer of hope for the Syrian people…
Over the past two months, as Israel has waged a genocidal war in Gaza, killing more than 19,000 people, more than a third of them…
In October, shortly after the start of the Israeli war on Gaza that has now killed nearly 20,000 Palestinians, Israel pledged to wipe Hamas “off…
On April 15, we awoke to news that war had broken out in Sudan. From our screens, my family, our Sudanese community, and I followed…
In just three years, Javier Milei, an eccentric libertarian economist and regular participant on talk shows on TV, managed to create a political party and…
The United States media, bar just a few exceptions, are refusing to engage seriously with one of the most important questions about Israel’s ongoing war…
Old (colonial) habits die hard. After a two-day meeting of foreign ministers from the wealthy Group of Seven (G7) countries in the Japanese capital, Tokyo,…
After a brief hiatus of seven days in late November, Israel has resumed its punishing campaign of indiscriminate bombing in Gaza. This time, the majority…
Over the past two months, protest marches in solidarity with the Palestinian people have taken place all across the United States and Canada. They have…
In November, Israel’s public broadcaster, Kan, uploaded on its official X page a video of Israeli children singing a song celebrating their country’s ongoing genocide…
The scorching violence against the people of Gaza has been unprecedented. And so have its reverberations online. Palestinians documenting and speaking up against Israel’s genocidal…
As world leaders gathered in Dubai for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28), Israeli President Isaac Herzog and a delegation of two dozen Israeli officials…