Category: Opinion

Tue 28 January 2020: Pro-government media and politicians have cast the protesters as paid anti-India agents, but that’s far from the reality driving the demonstrations. The passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has led to one of the longest and most intense citizen-led, anti-government mobilizations in India in the last decade. Deemed discriminatory in nature, the […]

Wed 22 January 2020: Nationalism and national identity are two key concepts in the shaping of the contemporary world since the 19th century. Nationalism aims to create group loyalty, through a single national identity based on various aspects particular to a certain nation or homeland, including culture, religion, politics and a common shared history. Nationalism, […]

Mon 20 January 2020: Soleimani is the product of the same historical events that have curbed popular sovereignty and democracy in the region. A plethora of articles has been published in recent days on the US air strike that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Many authors claim that it “is […]

Sun 19 January 2020: Iraq is far too fragile to find itself on a collision course with the US, for the sake of Iran. In the aftermath of the US drone strike that took out infamous Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) General Qasem Soleimani, Tehran’s allies in Baghdad have been making noise about forcing […]

Thu 16 January 2020: The clash between the ‘resistance’ and ‘revolutionary’ movements will define the Middle East in the future. The events surrounding the US assassination of Iranian Quds Force leader Major General Qassem Soleimani brought to the surface the two main ideological forces that now battle each other across the Middle East – the […]

Tue 14 January 2020: Messiah is not egregiously Islamophobic like ‘Homeland’ but if you dig deeper, the Orientalism starts to show. The new Netflix series ‘Messiah‘ is set on an objectively exciting premise. The problem? It ends up being little more than a reinforcement of naive American foreign policy (and for a Middle Easterner or Muslim, […]

Thu 09 January 2019: The U.S. drone strike that targeted and killed top Iranian commander, Maj-Gen. Qassem Soleimani, generated an extraordinary amount of controversy in U.S. policy circles, even by the standards of Middle East issues. While some admire President Donald Trump’s boldness in targeting Soleimani, many others were quick to decry it as a […]

Wed 08 January 2019: Idlib today bears the brunt of the Assad regime’s Soleimani-inspired scorched earth strategy which will blight Syria for a long time to come. It’s darkly ironic that at the time when the US government assassinated Major-General Qasem Soleimani, the leader of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, it emerged that […]