My nephew asks if he will eat meat only in heaven. I struggle to answer | Israel-Palestine conflict
When on March 2, we heard all crossings into Gaza were closed, we thought it would not last more than two weeks. We really wanted…
As India strikes Pakistan, I mourn what we’ve truly lost | India-Pakistan Tensions
On the night of May 6, India went to bed. In the morning, we were at war. When I woke up on Wednesday at about…
As the conclave gathers, let debt justice be Pope Francis’s legacy | Religion
Pope Francis was never drawn to pomp or grandeur. He asked to be buried in a simple casket, and his burial was held not in…
Eastern Europe bets on Trump – but at what cost? | Opinions
Eastern Europe’s love affair with Trump runs deep – but economic fallout may soon cool the romance.Despite Donald Trump’s fraying popularity at home, there is…
Harvard talks free speech but silences Palestine | Education
My sister was standing with a few other students under the dim glow of Harvard Yard’s old lampposts, casually smoking and chatting. “Oh, you’re Palestinian?”…
Palestine and the decline of the US empire | Israel-Palestine conflict
It has been 19 months now since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza. The International Court of Justice is investigating a “plausible genocide”,…
Canada’s myth of unity | Politics
Canada is a haven for pleasing myths. One agreeable caricature popular these days is of a land and a people united in happy solidarity to…
Israel bombs Yemen’s Hodeidah port after attack near Tel Aviv | Politics News
Air strikes come a day after the Iran-aligned Houthis fired a missile that struck near Israel’s main airport.The Israeli military says it has carried out…
Fear and intimidation at Newark airport | Israel-Palestine conflict
I am no stranger to political repression and censorship. I have lived in Germany for five years now, and as a Palestinian journalist involved in…
How do you keep going in Gaza when everything tells you to stop? | Israel-Palestine conflict
Before the war, my life was simple. Like many young women in Gaza, I carried within me a mixture of ambition and anxiety. My dream…
No, Trump is not a fascist. He is a hypercapitalist and just as dangerous | Politics
Since taking office in January, United States President Donald Trump has undertaken policy after policy that has shocked Americans and the world. From launching an…
We must not let the memory and value of solidarity with refugees be erased | Refugees
I moved to Lesbos in 2001. This was nearly 80 years after my grandmother had arrived from Ayvalik on this same island as a nine-year-old…
Reparations for empire: What the new pope owes to Africa | Slavery
Late Pope Francis, who came to be known as a strong voice for the poor, oppressed and the marginalised during his tenure as the leader…
I was forced to burn my books to survive in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict
When we were children, my siblings and I regularly spent our pocket money on new books. Our mother had instilled in us a passionate love…
A protective force must be deployed to occupied Palestine | Israel-Palestine conflict
In the past few weeks, demands for the deployment of a protective force in Gaza and the West Bank have resurfaced. They have come from health…
Second Serve: How Madrid Open’s extended format has split opinions of ATP and WTA players
With the two-week Madrid Open reaching the halfway point, it is the perfect time to revisit a thorny issue in tennis.Stretching several ATP and WTA…
In Yemen, we comfort ourselves, thinking: It is not as bad as Gaza | Opinions
In the first week of April, the United States carried out air raids across Yemen. One strike hit just a street away from my family…
USAID and the pacification industry in Palestine | Israel-Palestine conflict
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) opened its office in Palestine back in 1994. Its website, which is no longer available, used to…
The great collapse of US higher education has begun | Education
There is no other way to say it. The American university as the United States has known it since the 1960s is at an end.…
In Canada, genocide is on the ballot | Gaza
If you doubted the old chestnut that politics can be a “fickle business,” the leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, Pierre Poilievre, would like to have…