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…