East Timor has a historic opportunity to break ASEAN deadlock on Myanmar | Opinions
East Timor finally looks set to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) this year. The country’s accession to the bloc has been a…
How Trump took an Israeli idea and presented it as his own | Opinions
US President Donald Trump’s latest statements that called for cancelling the ceasefire in Gaza have caused outrage across the Middle East and beyond. Although some…
The Gazafication of Jenin will not succeed | Opinions
Last month, as the Israeli army started pulling out of Gaza under the ceasefire agreement, it announced an “operation” in the occupied West Bank city…
Our ‘return’ to northern Gaza is not the end of exile | Israel-Palestine conflict
For 15 months, I was displaced from my home in northern Gaza. For 15 long months that felt like 15 years, I felt like a…
How Sudan and Palestine made it to the Super Bowl | Opinions
On Sunday night amid the spectacle of the Super Bowl halftime show, a performer raised the flags of Sudan and Palestine. In an event as…
Big Tech is powering Trump’s immigration crackdown | Social Media
“Immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of s***.” This is the kind of statement that Meta will no longer be flagging as hate speech on their…
On idle talk and genocide in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict
Today, writing feels like planting the proverbial tree in the face of the apocalypse. Decades ago, I started writing to make words mean again. When…
Elon Musk is a global problem | Opinions
From his apparent “Nazi salute” at United States President Donald Trump’s inauguration celebration to his labelling of the US Agency for International Development as a…
Towards a Trump Tower in Gaza? | Israel-Palestine conflict
When Donald Trump reassumed the presidency of the United States of America in January, eternal New York Times foreign affairs columnist and Orientalist extraordinaire Thomas…
It is time to move the UN and international law out of the West | United Nations
The exceptional immunity that Israel has enjoyed for decades has placed international law and its institutions at a knife’s edge. Israel has killed UN workers, banned UNRWA, barred UN…
Canada’s brewing disquiet | Opinions
Canada is in a MAGA world of trouble. The nation’s “dearest” and “closest” friend has declared a debilitating trade war by imposing stiff tariffs on…
The PA and Israel are allies in silencing the truth | Israel-Palestine conflict
On December 28, 21-year-old journalism student Shatha Al-Sabbagh was assassinated near her home in Jenin. Her family accused snipers from the Palestinian Authority (PA) deployed…
How MAGA fell out with ‘Indian Tech-Bros’ | Opinions
The recent uproar in the United States over H-1B high-skilled work visas has exposed deep fissures within Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement at…
Guantanamo deportations: What’s Trump’s plan? Why is it controversial? | Donald Trump News
United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order that seeks to repurpose Guantanamo Bay, a US prison in Cuba, into a detention…
Guantanamo to hold ‘illegal aliens’: The Constitution v The President, 2.0 | Opinions
These days there is a sense that Washington, DC, along with most of the Western world, has transported back to the 1930s, when fascism was…
A US-Hamas dialogue could shift us from war to peace | Israel-Palestine conflict
Last week, senior Hamas and United States officials expressed to the media their mutual willingness to engage in “a dialogue”. The statements by senior Hamas…
The day millennials’ hip-hop went to the Klan’s ball | Opinions
A few years ago, when reports came out that The Office star Ellie Kemper was crowned at the Veiled Prophet debutante ball, what critics called…
Now, it is time to grieve in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict
It’s been a week since a ceasefire was declared in Gaza. For the first time in 15 months, the relentless sound of explosions has been…
Why Syria is so coveted | Syria’s War
Syria today is the most dynamic diplomatic venue in the Middle East because it is the most strategically contested one – as it has been…
When the symbols of Ukrainian resistance fade | Russia-Ukraine war
Ukraine, a country whose sociocultural evolution reflects a blend of modern and traditional values, has always had a weakness for symbols. We have mastered the…