A file picture shows Iranian women walking outside the Grand Bazaar in Tehran. AFP Mon 03 November 2025: Some elements of the Iranian state are in favour of relatively relaxing social controls, while others wish to cede no ground. Tehran, Iran – President Masoud Pezeshkian unveiled a “Gen Z adviser” about a month ago, posing […]
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Sun 02 November 2025: Israel has contracted three US public relations companies to help it win back American hearts and minds. Israel has contracted at least three public relations companies to bolster its image online and among the United States’ Christian right, filings under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) show. According to US Department […]
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Sun 26 October 2025: As Lebanon approaches parliamentary elections in May 2026, the country stands at a crossroads. Hizballah, the mighty image of Lebanese politics and Middle Eastern resistance, has been left battered and isolated politically after its latest confrontation with Israel. But even in its weakened position, the organization remains defiant—retaining its weapons and […]
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Sun 26 October 2025: In what is being described as “historic”, the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) organised a massive protest march outside the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) headquarters in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad on Friday, directly challenging the organisation’s ideological stronghold. Led by the VBA and joined by local Ambedkarite political groups and organisations, the protest drew […]
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Wed 22 October 2025: When Donald Trump sent a last-minute invitation to Benjamin Netanyahu to attend the Sharm el-Sheikh ceasefire summit, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stopped his private plane from landing in Egypt. While the Turkish presidential plane circled above, officials say Erdoğan pushed Cairo hard, threatened to boycott the event, and rallied other Muslim […]
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Mon 20 October 2025: For the first time in decades, the public in the United States and across the West has begun to see Israel’s wars and occupation for what they truly are: acts of systemic injustice driven by malevolence and impunity. Social media has removed the familiar whitewash of mainstream filters, revealing truths long […]
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Mon 20 October 2025: Biko, Mandela and the words South Africa is reaching for. Minibus taxis lean on their hooters and squeeze in the gaps. Hatfield’s main road is a river of backpacks and hoodies as Pretoria University students jaywalk between the flashing green man. On the corners flanking Burnett Street, ten—maybe twelve—volunteers with placards […]
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Sun 19 October 2025: There is a tragic irony in the Palestinian genocide: the Zionists kill Palestinians with Arab money and now intend to rebuild Gaza with funds from the very same source. This brutal contradiction encapsulates more than seven decades of political and moral submission by Arab dynasties that prefer the stability of their […]
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Mon 13 October 2025: The twenty-point plan introduced by Donald Trump in the fall of 2025, presented as a solution to end the Gaza war, outwardly attempts to establish a framework for peace and reconstruction in the Middle East. However, beneath its surface, this plan is less of a peace proposal and more a sign […]
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Sun 12 October 2025: History in the Arab world moves in circles. When Hamas announced that it would accept parts of the Gaza Plan proposed by Donald Trump’s administration, many analysts interpreted it merely as a tactical move, a desperate attempt by a battered movement to survive. Yet, beyond the surface of politics and war fatigue lies a much […]
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