Mon 01 February 2021: But can his political project succeed while the West continues to be openly hostile to Russia? Thousands of people across Russia’s 11 time zones took to the streets on January 23 to protest against the arrest of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, braving the winter cold, the pandemic, and the very […]
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Sat 16 January 2021: Ever since the launch of the Tunisian revolution ten years ago, some have accused the Arab popular revolutions of being an “Israeli or American conspiracy”. The intention has been to condemn the uprisings and accuse those who took part and paid a high price for doing so of working consciously or […]
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Fri 15 January 2021: More than 20 Yemeni farmers are reported to have been killed in what locals are calling a process of ‘colonisation’ by the Houthis. New evidence has emerged of Houthi militia atrocities in the village of al Haima, located in Yemen’s second largest province, Taiz, with local journalists and news agencies sharing photos […]
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Wed 13 January 2021: Does Brett McGurk’s appointment mean that the US policy of threatening friends and placating terrorists will return under a Biden administration? In the comeback tour that no one sane who values protecting civilian life in the Middle East wanted, senior US diplomat Brett McGurk has been strongly touted to head up […]
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Sun 10 January 2021: Phones have turned into weapons in the hands of many people. Most importantly, they have allowed people to capture a moment in real-time. Phones have therefore turned every citizen into a spontaneous journalist able to communicate and document an event, which no one would have otherwise known about if it weren’t […]
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Fri 08 January 2021: The Middle East is going through a dangerous transitional phase, in which more than one arena may explode at any moment, from Syria to Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Iraq and Yemen. They are all open spaces that Iran controls either directly or through its proxies, in their political, economic and demographic composition, […]
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Sun 03 January 2021: Beneath the warm applause welcoming the release of Mosul, the first Iraqi-accented Netflix production, there is a simmering cynicism. Among some Iraqi spectators the film roused disappointment and apathy, a disagreement that is about more than just taste. The story, riveting as it is, rehashes an article published in 2017 by The New Yorker, […]
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Sat 26 December 2020: I’ve often wondered why the Muslim Brotherhood strikes fear into the hearts of Arab regimes. Prisons across Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are filled with thousands of political prisoners drawn from the leadership and membership of the movement, which is also banned as a “terrorist organisation” by this […]
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Wed 23 December 2020: On 27 November, Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated; the killing has been assumed widely to have been the work of Israel. While some people expected an immediate response from Iran against Israel, others applauded the murder, believing that it will hinder Iran’s nuclear programme. What happened goes beyond Iran, though, and affects every country trying […]
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Mon 21 December 2020: Over the past few years, the number of women from the Middle East participating in international sporting events has risen steadily. The glass ceiling appears to have been broken. One of these athletes is international figure skater Zahra Lari, who believes it is important to inspire Arab women to break any […]
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