Yet another pushback for Syrian women to leave the public spaces for the powerful men who behave as if these spaces are their ownership.
Who controls Syria’s borders? The US and Israel are encouraging Syrian Kurds to fight the regime and its allies for border control. The ensuing mayhem might unravel the Mideast and far beyond.
While politics is the reason for Russian military presence in Syria, the relationship between Russian soldiers and Syrian civilians is not fundamentally about politics. RU
“This is the safe space I was talking about… a totally open space people can feel safe in, because stories are shared, barriers are broken and everyone is welcome.”
If history is a lesson, without a robust human rights framework, international missions are more likely to add to, rather than prevent, violence.
Political violence has ascended into a mode of governance in Iraq today, wherein religious identity reigns supreme.
Conflict and political radicalization are the lifeblood of a regime unable to wean itself off the exploitation of its own people.
If the Israeli authorities do not recognize the destructive ramifications of its own security rationale, it will not only harm Palestinians but Jewish-Israelis as well.
Why is Sheikh Nasser signing a declaration of “Religious Tolerance” in Los Angeles when the monarchy has counterintuitively sown sectarian divisions at home?
Locals in Homs are divided on the Russian military presence in this Syrian city: for some, they’re the lesser of many evils — for others, hated intruders.
The colonial image of Persians as hypocritical and unreliable is so deeply entrenched in western imagination, that it affects policymaking on the highest levels.
