Arab, Muslim politicians remember the legacy of Egypt’s first and only democratically elected president Wed 17 June 2020: This time last year, Egyptians and people worldwide were mourning the death of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first and only democratically elected president. The country’s post-revolution president passed away in a Cairo courtroom on June 17, 2019, years […]
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Wed 17 June 2020: As COVID-19 brought science and philosophy closer, we have seen a resurrection of interest in Persian polymath Avicenna. Every day at 7pm in New York, we come out to our balconies or front doors to bang on pots and pans and express our gratitude to physicians, nurses, and other public health workers who […]
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Tue 16 June 2020: LONDON (AA) – A councilor in east London who last week spearheaded the removal of a statue of Scottish slave trader Robert Milligan says more needs to be done in this area. Ehtesham Haque, a Bangladeshi-born councilor in the borough of Tower Hamlets, thinks that the name of another slave trader, […]
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Sat 13 June 2020: I have deliberately avoided watching the video of the murder of George Floyd simply because I’ve seen so many similar images before on the streets of Palestine under Israel’s brutal military occupation. The similarities do not end with such brutality. It has often been said that if Palestinians were black, their […]
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Tue 09 June 2020: The pandemic and the George Floyd protests give society a rare window to push for change. These are exceptional times. The world is battling the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, raising fundamental questions about the future of work, welfare, and civil liberties. While these issues are now taking centre stage, the crisis is […]
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Sat 06 June 2020: Last week, the United States House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favour of a bill to punish China for its brutal persecution and detainment of upwards of 3 million Uighr Muslims in Xinjiang, or what the ethnic minority refer to as East Turkestan. The bipartisan bill, which received almost unanimous support with a […]
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Fri 05 June 2020: Silvia Romano kidnapped in Kenya faced a hostile welcome when she returned to Italy. In November 2018, Italian aid worker Silvia Romano was kidnapped by gunmen linked to the Somali armed group al-Shabab in northeast Kenya. At the time of the attack, which left several people wounded, Romano was volunteering for […]
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Fri 29 May 2020: As I have said before, I was counting on the Libyan heroes of the February Revolution to continue their struggle against the reckless criminal Khalifa Haftar, and defeat his mercenary militias. My intuition proved to be right when the Libyans managed not only to control all the cities of the West […]
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Sat 30 May 2020: Iran has a longterm ideological and military aim that doesn’t require the Syrian regime to reform, or redeem itself. Simultaneous and cumulative pressures of the coronavirus pandemic, the global oil plunge and lingering conflict continue to afflict Syria, its economy, and the major actors involved in the Syrian civil war, not least […]
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Sat 23 May 2020: As COVID-19 continues to devastate the world, a growing number of countries are opting to use invasive surveillance methods to stem the spread of the virus and “flatten the curve”. Since the emergence of the novel coronavirus, several countries, led by Israel, China, Singapore and South Korea, started collecting security camera footage and bank records and […]
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