It is time to tax the rich… and their foundations | Opinions
We are wrapping up yet another tumultuous year in which wars and disasters have ravaged communities across the world. These misfortunes have added to the…
Palestinian men are not ‘terrorists in the making’ | Opinions
In just under three months, more than 21,000 people have been killed in Gaza, and many more are facing the risk of disease and death…
I teach in secret, defying the Taliban ban and fighting despair | Women’s Rights
I have sent the link and I am waiting for my students to join the Zoom session. I am teaching them English. I receive a…
I don’t care who wins the US presidential election | Gaza
It was a choreographed scene starring the US president and First Lady that was meant to convey the restorative spirit of the festive season. Last…
Watching the watchdogs: US media reporting from Gaza | Gaza
On December 14, I came across a report on the CNN website titled “Watch Clarissa Ward report from inside Gaza for the first time since…
On the Gaza ‘shoah’ and the ‘banality of evil’ | Opinions
“[T]he reality of concentration camps resembles nothing so much as medieval pictures of Hell.” – Hanna Arendt In February 2008, Matan Vilnai, then Israel’s…
The real ‘Person of the Year’ | Israel-Palestine conflict
It’s the end of the year, and you know what that means: lots of hubbub about Time magazine’s annual “Person of the Year,” a tradition…
Keeping the hope for health alive | World Health Organization
2023 was a year of milestones and challenges in global public health. In May, I declared an end to COVID-19 as a public health emergency…
In the US, Arabs and Muslims are once again cast as suspect | Gaza
For 80 days, Israel has been waging war on the Palestinians in Gaza with full diplomatic, economic and military support from the US government. The…
The weapon of nuance in Israel’s war on Gaza | Opinions
“Your work doesn’t look good in this political context. If someone asks me about your work, I won’t say anything positive about it. You need…
Gaza’s orphans: Pain without borders | Gaza
In Jabalia refugee camp, north of Gaza, the cries of an 11-year-old boy named Ahmad pierce the air. “I want my Baba, my Baba, Baba,”…
Why does the Christian West ignore Palestinian Christians’ plight? | Opinions
Since October 7, Israel and its allies have tried to put the war in Gaza within the “war on terror” framework, actively comparing Hamas to…
Gaza, US universities and the reproduction of power | Gaza
On the morning of December 10, I awoke to two messages. The first was from my father. He was asking me to write to the…
The US is no country for old men | Opinions
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…
Watching the watchdogs: Why the West misinterprets Middle East power shifts | Israel-Palestine conflict
“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…
It is time the labour movement takes a stand for Palestine | Israel-Palestine conflict
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…
Justin Trudeau’s belated and shameful volte face on Gaza | Opinions
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…
Excluding Hamas from the ‘day after’ in Gaza would be a mistake | Opinions
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…
Israel’s ‘Plan B’ for the Gaza Strip | Opinions
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 is a way out of the climate crisis – but it is not through COP | Climate Crisis
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…