Gaza urgently needs a more effective humanitarian approach | Israel-Palestine conflict
The ceasefire agreement in Gaza has now held for a month. There have been critical moments and violations, but the mediators have so far managed…
Tren de Aragua: America’s new bogeyman | Opinions
On his very first day back in office as president of the United States of America, Donald Trump signed an executive order naming the Venezuelan…
Unchilding Palestine’s children | Israel-Palestine conflict
On February 7, 10-year-old Saddam Rajab died in a hospital in the occupied West Bank after being shot by an Israeli soldier days earlier. Saddam was standing…
To avoid another conflict in the Horn of Africa, now is the time to act | Opinions
The Horn of Africa is a turbulent region whose history and contemporary realities are intertwined with those of the Middle East. Just like the Middle…
NBA players have mixed opinions about NBA All-Star game format
SAN FRANCISCO — This year’s NBA All-Star Game was an end, the final All-Star Game aired on TNT before the league switches television partners. The NBA All-Star…
Europe’s Trump dilemma | Russia-Ukraine war
US President Donald Trump has announced that he intends to talk “peace in Ukraine” with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at a possible meeting in Riyadh,…
I stayed until the end, Dr Abu Nujaila. We will remember and rebuild | Israel-Palestine conflict
“Whoever stays until the end will tell the story. We did what we could – remember us.” These were the words Dr Mahmoud Abu Nujaila…
The West has been in denial about censorship for far too long | Opinions
On February 14, US Vice President JD Vance caused a stir at the Munich Security Conference when he decided to accuse America’s European allies of…
The damage done when the journalists get the story wrong | Opinions
Patience is a virtue ill-used by most columnists. Too often, writers are consumed by the urgent here and now. As a result, they fail to…
What America’s Muslims can teach you about resisting political oppression | Islamophobia
President Donald Trump’s outcries against government overreach and abusive tactics are numerous. But will he instruct his administration not to repeat these power abuses? Trump’s…
East Timor has a historic opportunity to break ASEAN deadlock on Myanmar | Opinions
East Timor finally looks set to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) this year. The country’s accession to the bloc has been a…
How Trump took an Israeli idea and presented it as his own | Opinions
US President Donald Trump’s latest statements that called for cancelling the ceasefire in Gaza have caused outrage across the Middle East and beyond. Although some…
The Gazafication of Jenin will not succeed | Opinions
Last month, as the Israeli army started pulling out of Gaza under the ceasefire agreement, it announced an “operation” in the occupied West Bank city…
Our ‘return’ to northern Gaza is not the end of exile | Israel-Palestine conflict
For 15 months, I was displaced from my home in northern Gaza. For 15 long months that felt like 15 years, I felt like a…
How Sudan and Palestine made it to the Super Bowl | Opinions
On Sunday night amid the spectacle of the Super Bowl halftime show, a performer raised the flags of Sudan and Palestine. In an event as…
Big Tech is powering Trump’s immigration crackdown | Social Media
“Immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of s***.” This is the kind of statement that Meta will no longer be flagging as hate speech on their…
On idle talk and genocide in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict
Today, writing feels like planting the proverbial tree in the face of the apocalypse. Decades ago, I started writing to make words mean again. When…
Elon Musk is a global problem | Opinions
From his apparent “Nazi salute” at United States President Donald Trump’s inauguration celebration to his labelling of the US Agency for International Development as a…
Towards a Trump Tower in Gaza? | Israel-Palestine conflict
When Donald Trump reassumed the presidency of the United States of America in January, eternal New York Times foreign affairs columnist and Orientalist extraordinaire Thomas…
It is time to move the UN and international law out of the West | United Nations
The exceptional immunity that Israel has enjoyed for decades has placed international law and its institutions at a knife’s edge. Israel has killed UN workers, banned UNRWA, barred UN…