Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A Special Committee of the United Nations Office of the High Commission on Human Rights has issued a new report […]
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Walking Unveiled In Iran: Believing in the Beauty and Importance of Walks
“I also believe in the beauty and importance of our walks” Tara Sepehri Far, Iran and Kuwait Senior Researcher, Middle East and North Africa […]
Protesting the Imprisonment of Professor Awad al-Qarni, Popular Religious Reformer, by Saudi Arabia
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – March 09, 2023 His Majesty King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud King of Saudi […]
Elite Israeli Reserve Military Units Pass around Petitions calling Religious Parties Corrupt Parasites, threatening to go AWOL if Netanyahu guts Judiciary
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that protests against the government of Binyamin Netanyahu’s plans to gut the Israeli judiciary […]
On Int’l Women’s Day, US Activists Called on U.N. to halt Denial of Basic Reproductive Rights to American Women
By: Sofia Resnick – Nearly 22 million women, girls and gender-nonconforming persons of reproductive age are now living in states where abortion has been […]
Tunisia’s wave of racist attacks: ‘I’m afraid. I can just disappear’
Amelia Smith amyinthedesert ( Middle East Monitor ) – One student in Tunis fears most for his female colleagues; a story is circulating […]
Syria’s Earthquake survivors struggle in a Disaster made far worse by Civil War, bombed-out Hospitals and currency Collapse
By Ora Szekely, Clark University | – After a pair of devastating earthquakes struck southern Turkey and northwestern Syria, the number of confirmed deaths continues […]
South Africa downgrades Israeli Embassy over Ongoing Apartheid (and they should know)
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Middle East Eye reports that the South African parliament has voted to downgrade the Israeli embassy in Pretoria to […]
Jimmy Carter’s Man in Sudan
Strasbourg, France (Special to Informed Comment) – I am not quite able to remember the first time I met President Carter, but I do remember […]
Climate Emergency: Intense Downpours, Flash Floods will Increasingly Strike Britain
By Elizabeth Kendon, University of Bristol | – (The Conversation) – In July 2021, Kew in London experienced a month’s rain in just three hours. […]