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Republicanism and Islam in the Banlieues
The Paris attacks this fall brought to the fore the threat of European citizens recruited by ISIS returning to…
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…
Fora Dilma: A People’s Quest to End Corruption
In Rio de Janeiro, where music and dancing are continuous, a different kind of party took place on the streets of…
Avoiding the Second Cold War
On Monday, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would begin withdrawing select parts of its…
American Foreign Policy Post-Elections: A Forecast of…
Many are breathing a sigh of relief that the U.S. Presidential primaries seem to be finally approaching their end,…
Slovakia’s Elections: Neo-Nazi Tinged Politics
Global newscasts and headlines rarely turn their attention to Slovakia, since low debts and steady growth in an EU…
A Tale of Two Countries: 110 Days Later
This article is a continuation a piece published on 20 November 2015 which can be found here.
Three and half…
A Girl In the River: Oscar-Winning Film to Create Change…
On the night of the 88th Academy Awards, director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy took home an Oscar for her film, A Girl…
Why Lebanon Is a Prisoner of Its Own Divisions
Sectarian divisions are a social and political reality in Lebanon. However, until recently, the polarization …
Concerns about Hong Kong’s Media Rights
On the day of Hong Kong’s handover from the British to the People Republic of China, Deng Xiaoping, the leader of…
‘No Lost Generation’
The Syrian war is inescapable. We see it everywhere in the media. We hear of the violence taking place, with…
The Opposite of Poetry
As many as 24 million people at once have tuned in live for the election debates this year, which have brought the…