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Death From Above: A New Sphere of Empire in the Name of…
On May 21st 2016 at 6am, Mohammad Azam’s family lost one of its members and sole economic provider. Mohammad was…
The Unknown Uprisings: Five Years Later, Bahrain’s…
“The feeling of marginalization is the engine. The feeling of being discriminated is the engine behind . But what…
The Democratic Party’s Changing Politics on…
After decades of nearly unquestioning support for the Israeli state, a lethargic linchpin of U.S. foreign policy…
Ransom Payments: A Double-Edged Sword
Kidnapping foreign citizens in exchange for ransom money has become one of the key methods of financing and…
An Army with a State: Pakistan’s Serial Praetorians
Two states were born at the stroke of midnight on August 14th 1947 from the twilight of the British Raj in the…
Love in the time of Censorship: How One Show Slipped…
Iran is not a country known for having free and liberal censorship laws and so it is a shock to many that the new…
Sanders’ Views on Israel May be Representative of Strong…
During the Democratic Presidential Primary debate on April 14th, Bernie Sanders expressed support for the…
Migrants, Terror and Turkey
After undergoing significant modifications since it was first announced in November of 2015, the EU-Turkey…
Hear the Wedding Bells Ring: The Dark Side of Child…
Every minute, 28 girls under the age of 18 are married against their will. Over 700 million women alive today have…
Syria: Those Left Behind
More than 11 million people have been killed or forced to flee Syria due to the ongoing conflict and around 6.6…
The Yemen Ceasefire: A Successful Truce or a…
A sign of hope has reached the crisis in Yemen, as the internationally-recognized Yemeni government and Houthi…
Update on Palestinian Teachers’ Strike
Here is another pleasant surprise and update on one of the articles I recently wrote about an over-one month long…