As a richly articulated living history, Sur shattered the stereotype of the Middle East as intellectually backwards and culturally empty. A call for international support.
The colonial experience of the Arab world did not only stunt its social development, it also inhibited the development of class-consciousness.
The Internet of Things applies unique identifiers to objects, including people to be followed, and provides large amounts of data on all aspects of an individual’s movements and activities.
If lasting political change is to occur in Syria, the experience of its neighbours must be heeded.
The United States’ covert drone war in Yemen - at least 15 years old now – continues. European countries are directly and indirectly involved.
In an interview originally published in 2003, Ron G Manley talks to openDemocracy about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction.
By choosing not to vote, I am opting out of choosing whose life, whose community, I view as expendable. I cannot stop the next attack, or the one after that.
A viable Libyan state that will restore normalcy and security to the daily lives of its citizens must be given the same priority as the international community’s immediate desire to combat Daesh.
Modern day Islamism represents the interests of a specific social class that has few qualms about current social and economic structures.
Policy makers need to focus on the Middle East and North Africa’s three big crises.
The Gazans have been abandoned and left in the hands of Hamas to do with them as they please. This policy is transforming Gaza slowly but steadily into a hotbed of radicals.
IS militants are now resorting to social media to sell sex slaves online.
