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A conversation with Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat on the need for a political solution.
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.
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.
Under the guise of fighting hate speech, the ADL has a long history of wielding its moral authority to attack Arabs, blacks, and queers.
For a two-state solution to succeed, Israeli Jews must first forswear their righteous narrative of moral superiority.
In a bid to consolidate power, Erdoğan is reshaping Turkish politics in the image of the Ottoman past.
Kurds—the largest stateless ethnic group in the world—can be found on all sides of an increasingly complex conflict that stretches across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
Democratic forces persist amid brutal regime violence and sectarian conflict.
The United States will lose the war for control of the Middle East.
Negotiations may ease the humanitarian crisis—while strengthening Assad.
Europe must accept that post-nationalism, by nature, is porous at its borders.
Fears of terrorism, and President Erdoğan’s rivalry with an exiled theologian, have become excuses for censorship and repression.
For anti-Assad rebels, a southern spring has become a kind of suicide bomb.
It is time for the United States to take responsibility for the war it encouraged in Syria.
The promise of democracy lies in its potential to cultivate political virtue over time. But Egypt's liberals, unnerved by the policies of the legitimate Muslim Brotherhood government, refused to wait.
Including translations of Khamenei's speeches from 1990 to the present.
The kinds of sacred spaces we worked for are not just possible; they exist. On the other side of the planet. Under occupation.
“The drones were terrifying. The buzz of a distant propeller is a constant reminder of imminent death."
Jordanian mothers with non-Jordanian husbands cannot pass along citizenship to their children. The results are devastating, but a growing campaign is committed to change.
What will it take to revive U.S.-Iran relations?
The chemical weapons ban should have been made universal years ago.
When state order collapses, every confessional or ethnic group asks one question: Who will protect us now?
Hassan Rouhani’s presidential election creates an opportunity for negotiations with Iran. President Obama should seize it.
The streets of Istanbul are alive with democratic politics—not dramatic upheaval.
Today, Muslims all over the world are bringing to a close their celebrations of Ramadan, which occurs annually in the ninth month of the lunar calendar.
A golden opportunity in Egypt's "constitutional moment."
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