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2015: Redefining our Understanding of Free Speech
With the recent Charlie Hebdo attacks, freedom of speech has become a crucial talking point in the international…
New Turkish bill sets the stage to Police State?
It is rare to witness politicians, who are usually collected and eloquent, to fistfight one another over political…
Perdu en Translation
Qui ne connaît pas la fameuse formule de JFK « ich bin ein berliner » ? Me croiriez-vous si je vous disais que sa…
Lost in Translation
Who isn’t familiar with JFK’s famous words “Ich Bin Ein Berliner”? Would you believe me If I told you the correct…
Deal or No Nuclear Deal: How the Crisis with Iran began…
The history of scandals, virulent denunciations and accusations, and near warfare between the United States and the…
Gulf States: Sportsmanship for Sale
With the recently concluded 2015 Men's Handball World Championship in Qatar came a sigh of relief as France…
“We continue to bleed red, blue, and orange:” The costs…
Though Polish Jewish lawyer and drafter of the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of…
In Yemen, Sectarianism Trumps Nationalism
For Yemen, which is 40% Shia and 60% Sunni, there seems to be no end in sight for conflict and political…
The Fallacy of Ideological Warfare: How Overemphasis on…
The world is in the midst of an ideological war…at least this is what mainstream media organisations and…
ISIL’s Second Source of Funding: Smuggled…
It is no secret that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) makes about $1 million per day selling petrol…
Qatar’s Niche Foreign Policy
Throughout history, the normative concept of states evolved and in the modern era statehood is granted through …
The Sudanese Foreign Policy: A Two-Faced Stratagem
Unnoticed by the mainstream medias, recent leaked minutes from a secret meeting - held on 31 August 2014 and …