Category: Middle East

12 Republican Senators Letter to ICC Prosecutor Over Possible Netanyahu Arrest Warrants

by Team Zeteo and Mehdi Hasan: A group of influential Republican senators has sent a…

A Barnard Professor on What Columbia Owes its Students Right Now

“If we are to reclaim our university, faculty and students must do it together.” By…

Gaza War and Students Protests: Perspectives on the Conflagration

The Ideas Letter: The war in Gaza has inspired powerful protest, unyielding contestation, and claims…

The Genocide Question Plus College Protest Follow-Up

Liz Wolfe at the Reason: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague is…

Protests and Solidarity

“There is something called the wisdom of crowds … “ Damir Marusic and Shadi Hamid…

Dubai’s Freak Rain

Don’t blame it on cloud seeding – the storm was far too big to be…

Is the Gaza war Tearing US University Campuses Apart?

Joel Mathis, at The Week: Campus unrest over the war in Gaza “has reached a…

Yuval Noah Harari: From Gaza to Iran, the Netanyahu Govt Is Endangering Israel’s Survival

Yuval Noah Harari in Haaretz: In the coming days Israel will have to make historic…

The Israel-India Worker Deal Resembles British Indenture

Michelle Buckley, Paula Chakravartty in Boston Review: In December, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received…

A Beginner’s Guide to a Joyful Persian Tradition of Spring Renewal and Rebirth

Directed by Naghmeh Pour & produced by Sara Samsøe Moghaddas at Aeon: Coinciding with the…

A New Forein Policy Era Dawns

William Kristol and Andrew Egger at The Bulwark: All around us, there are indications—I’m tempted,…

An AI Deal as a Diplomatic Weapon

A relatively small deal — by Microsoft’s standards, anyway — is leading to big geopolitical…