Tag: Middle East

Not only a tool to justify U.S. and Israeli intervention, the label is increasingly dividing Iranian society from within.

The new government’s greatest challenge may be rebuilding a just society in the aftermath of barbaric state violence.

While the U.S.–Israel alliance has become isolated, new ones are emerging.

How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became entangled with colonialism.

Any peace will depend on a sober assessment of Hamas.

Amid ongoing reporting and ethical outrage, we need context for the fight between Hamas and Israel—and how it shapes possibilities for peace.

In Palestine and Kurdistan, promising experiments in self-determination draw on the region’s pluralist history.

From street demonstrations to song, dance, film, and poetry, women are advancing a long legacy of struggle against authoritarianism in Iran.

Noam Chomsky on lies, crimes, and savage capitalism.

Far from a metaphysical battle between fanaticism and tolerance, the Rushdie affair exemplifies the marketization of hurt sentiments.

Accounts still get the history of Palestinian diplomacy wrong.

On Ashura, Shi’a Muslims grieve the Prophet’s grandson. But with Iran crippled by COVID-19 and U.S. sanctions, it was also an occasion this year to mourn the country’s deaths from disease and despair.

The explosion was only the latest tragedy in the city’s long decline.

In the wake of the devastating port explosion, civil society has shown the way forward—filling the void of a nonexistent and incapacitated state.

In a world imperiled by global pandemic, it is long past time to put an end to sanctions—including new ones against Iran—and to reconstruct U.S. foreign policy around international solidarity.

In linking the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani to the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, Trump invokes a fantasy of poetic justice—positioning himself as Rambo, the avenger of American humiliation abroad.

Donald Trump's “maximum pressure” strategy is doomed to fail, especially as tensions rise between Iran and the United States.

Under the guise of fighting hate speech, the ADL has a long history of attacking Arab, Black, and queer people.

For a two-state solution to succeed, Israeli Jews must first forswear their righteous narrative of moral superiority.

With Assad preparing a major offensive on the last rebel stronghold, the United States must offer a path forward. 

In a bid to consolidate power, Erdoğan is reshaping Turkish politics in the image of the Ottoman past.