Middle East

By Hazem Ayyad | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Israeli Defence Minister, Benny Gantz, summed up the tense scene in Gaza and its environs by saying: Life will not be normal in the Gaza Strip as long as the life routine is not normal in the settlements around it. The settlers in this area […]

Apartheid

Israel bombs Civilian Apt. Bldg. in Gaza City, Killing 10, Wounding 55; When Russia does it, it is a War Crime

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Maram Humaid at Al Jazeera English reports that Israeli fighter jets bombed the civilian Palestine Towers apartment building in downtown Gaza City on Friday, killing 10, including a five-year-old girl, a Quds Brigades commander and wounding 55 other persons. The little girl, Alaa Qadooum, and her father were on a […]

Featured

Taken for a Ride: Saudi-led OPEC+ snubs Biden with tiny Oil Increase, Despite Arms Sales, Fist Bump

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – At its meeting in Vienna yesterday, the enlarged “+” version of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting States (OPEC+) decided to increase output by only 100,000 barrels per day, a vanishingly small amount that will have no impact on lowering gasoline prices and which does US President Joe Biden virtually no […]

Arms Sales

U.S. Lawmakers Demand Federal Scrutiny of How US Tech got into Turkey’s Drones

ProPublica

By Umar Farooq | – ( ProPublica ) – As countries around the globe add armed drones to their arsenals, federal lawmakers are pressing the Biden administration to investigate how U.S. parts and technology ended up in what has fast become one of the most popular models on the world market: Turkey’s TB2. Manufactured by […]

Dissent

Why the Storming of the Iraqi Parliament is no Moment of Liberation

Middle East Monitor

By Haifa Zangana | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Why does the occupation of the Iraqi Parliament building in the Green Zone in Baghdad, not arouse feelings of enthusiasm, as it did in the case of the protesters’ occupation of the presidential palace in Sri Lanka, enthusiasm towards which reached the Arab nations […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israel’s Visa refusal to Palestinian Harvard Fellow sparks calls for Boycott of Apartheid State

Middle East Monitor

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel has refused to grant a visa permit to one of Gaza’s highly acclaimed poet and former Harvard fellow, Mosab Abu Toha. Author of one of the shortlisted books for this year’s Palestine Book Awards (PBA), Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: […]

Israel/ Palestine

New Documents: The Israeli Massacre of Palestinians at Kafr Qasem in 1956 was Part of an Ethnic Cleansing Campaign

Middle East Monitor

By Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – On Friday, archives of the Israeli forces released court documents related to the trial of Israeli soldiers who brutally massacred 49 Palestinians on 29 October, 1956. The massacre took place in the Palestinian town of Kafr Qasem. It was the first day of […]

Books

‘Summer with the Enemy’ by Syrian novelist Shahla Ujayli is a searing summer read

The Conversation

By Michelle Hartman, McGill University | – Wherever you spend your summer, allow yourself to be transported to Syria and immerse yourself in the world of Shahla Ujayli’s sweeping historical novel Summer with the Enemy. The ongoing devastation of the war that began in 2011 has brought Syria to the world’s attention. Reading a Syrian […]

Authoritarianism

How Tunisians can instill Democracy in the Face of growing Authoritarianism

Waging Nonviolence

By Craig Brown | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – As Tunisia’s president Kais Saied takes the country down the path of authoritarianism, opponents faced a quandary about what to do during the July 25 referendum, on a constitution that will hand Saied significant power. Political opponents and civil society organizations considered whether it was […]